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Message: [QUOTE="Conndog, post: 4193119, member: 5939"] Was basketball so bad when the 3-point shot wasn't around so that it was necessary to create the shot? When the game didn't have it, I think the best schools were stockpiling those players who were tallest or best suited for strong inside game. With perennial powers like Duke, Kansas, Kentucky etc doing this, what chance would other schools have? Leveling out the playing field by creating the 3-point shot so schools with smaller players could hit 3's and overcome this inside dominance was a good theory, but now the same perennial powers are often getting the best shooters too. Not always, but when you look at ratings of recruits each year, it still seems like the rich keep getting richer. I miss seeing the mid-point shot and worry that basketball will be too narrowly played with only having dunks or 3-point shots. I don't like watching the pro game, it is missing something for me, and I think it is the lack of the mid-court range. If you wanted to reduce dependence on 3's to bring back a mid-range game, I'm not sure how to achieve this. You could put the line back even further maybe, but isn't it already almost to the maximum in the corners? Plus, what would stop the best shooters from still going to the perennial powers if the line were further away? Could you somehow impose some type of time limit for parking just outside the 3 line? Have a limit of the # of 3's that can be made in a game? Maybe limit the # of scholarships that any school can use for their roster? Just leave things be as they are now, or maybe just take out the 3-point shot again? [/QUOTE]

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