International 3 Point Line Adopted by NCAA
This helps us out so much.
This would hurt a traditional Beilein team, but this now opens up the game more for driving and inside game, which Howard is definitely more likely to utilize
If there's any team that will benefit from a 3P line moving back, it's next year's team. We were already going to be a bad/mediocre 3P shooting team, so it's good that everybody else will take a step back
If teams weren’t going to respect Michigan’s shooters at the previous line they’re not going to do so at the new one.
This rationale always struck me as bizarre. If a deeper three point line opens up so many easy interior buckets for the offense, then that could have been achieved by just having shooters set up deeper.
The real difference now is that shots from three are now worth some fractional amount less, because they will go in less often, and teams can worry *more* about defending the lane.
It's not either/or. Moving the 3 back will encourage more 2s because of the decrease in 3 pt % and will simultaneously create more room and make defenders cover larger distances.
I venture that this played an albeit small part in Beileins decision to leave. Surely he had to have known what was coming.
You have to be kidding...
He went to the NBA. Ya know, for the closer 3 point line.
Actually now that he's gone, let's just scrap the 3 line altogether.
What's next? Mayo on freedom fries?
That's delicious!
Au contraire--we're conceding to the Surrender Monkies.
you have to put some malted vinegar on the fries THEN dip them in mayo.
? Where have you gone Duncan Robinson? Blue nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo hoo hoo?
"and the offensive team rebounds the ball in the front court" seems strange and unnecessarily complicated.
Well, if the other team rebounds the ball it seems unfair that they would get a 20 second shot clock. If it goes into the backcourt before it is rebounded, then why not reset the clock?
i was specifically objecting to the seemingly arbitrary "in the frontcourt" clause, not the part about it being an offensive rebound
Agreed. So if that one time every five games happens and a rebound goes into the back court, you get the full reset? More likely is that the clock guy can't tell for sure where exactly the "rebound" took place, so we get a buzzer followed by a three minute delay to determine whether the offense gets 20 seconds or the full shot clock. Ugh.
I have no opinion on the matter, but the reasoning behind the 20 second reset is that teams get 10 seconds to get it past half court in a normal situation, so why should they get those 10 seconds after a rebound too? Thus, if the rebound goes behind backcourt they should get the full amount of time to get the ball back up.
Except if there's a turnover and you get the ball in the front court, you get the full shot clock just the same as if you were taking it out under the far basket. While I get your point, typically there has not been a difference. Plus, if the offense bricks a shot so badly that the rebound goes into the back court, the offense should not be rewarded with added time. :-)
Thanks for posting the link - if only to see what a true shitshow the NCAA is.
Extra spaces, missing bullet points, and run-on sentences - good grief. I was not expecting a peer-reviewed masterpiece, but you would think the NCAA could find a former student-athlete that went pro in something else, namely, editing
"something else; namely: editing."
Glass houses and all that. ;)
Also going to allow review of goal tending and basket interference in the last two minutes.
Ugh, can you imagine how many minutes they will take to determine if the ball was on the way down before it was touched?
At some point, ruining the flow of the end of game is not going to be worth 'getting it correct'.
I'm already there. Eliminate replay.
But allow it for blocking fouls. Because that would have helped us in 2013. But don't add it for anything else. Well, until the next time we feel outrage.
The new distance further away from the basket is 1' 4 3/4"?
Or 0.42545 meters
Makes sense.
Also, 20 Seconds on the shot clock after an offensive rebound, not 30. Like that a lot.
When will they finally put a limit on dribbling?
/s
When are they bringing back 3-sec lane violations?
I can throw a football over those mountains......
*them mountains...
damn....
uncle rico, is that you? IDIOT!
them there mountains.
Im OK with moving the line back but I think the NCAA shouldve given players a couple year heads up for when they were going to do this
Next seasons players are kind of screwed as the 3pt shot they've been working all these years on now wont cut it. NCAA should've set a date like 2022 for moving the line back so players could prepare. Next seasons 3pt shooting % are going to be horrendous
It seems then Beilein picked a perfect time to get out of college basketball. Imagine last years team shooting from even further back!
Percentages will go down because it's further away, not because they needed time to prepare.
The kids are already shooting it at all different distances from the arch. It won't take them long for adjustment.
You call the 3-point line the "arch" when I only remember it being called the "arc," however both make sense to me. Is arch used in some basketball corner I don't know about?
You’re both wrong. Threes are shot behind a large vessel used to house 2 of every animal during extreme flooding.
Maybe with that idea in mind, and to allow a similar weighting in the value of the basket, keep the line at the current distance, but make it worth 2.79 points instead
I'm 100% in favor of moving the line back. It is too easy now, and has become too MUCH of the game. Plus, kids want to play in the NBA right? So why not push the line closer to NBA length?
I love the 3-point shot, but I'm not a fan of every possession being an attempt to get an open 3. Right now, everyone thinks they can hit a 3. The 3-point shot should be more exclusive than that IMO.
Hopefully the new distance will appeal to lil bro Wagner
I’m not enough of a basketball X and Os guy to know for sure, but in a counterintuitive way, this may result in less room on the inside and not more.
While someone like Teske was marginal from last years 3 pt line, he was probably competent enough that teams had to at least think about covering him.
Now, the bigs Michigan faces can just pack in the lane and forget thinking about Teske on the perimeter.
Or...Teske could put even more work into perfecting his 3-point shot and get better at it.
So when are we going to get 10 minute quarters...
The real reason Belein went to the NBA
Now how about a trapezoidal lane?