The regualar distance of the NBA three point line is 23.9 feet. The distance of the three point line in the corner in 22 feet, one foot and nine inches shorter and still it is valued as 3 points. First of all, this doesn't pass the fair test. Second of all, its existence seems contrived to increase scores. Thirdly, it is a position that is very dificult to guard, given the speed of the game today. Some defensive minded coaches say there are schemes to guard against the shot, but the analytics says differently. More threes are made from the corner than any other place behind the 3 point line. 42.5% makes from the corner compared to 34.9 from the wing three and 38.9 from straight on three. That's a heck of a distance and it provides players who normally might not make a three-point-shot from anywhere on the court the opportunity to call themselves three point shooters.
IN ADDITON, it makes the game BORING and FRUSTRATING. Furthermore, it damages something that was a very important part of defense as I learned in high school and college and during my years in the BBA: the importance of HELP D, particularly from the weakside. This deserves a quick explanation: players drive to the basket - do they ever these days ad nauseum knowing that the charging foul in the NBA is rarely called. Before the corner three, alert help D often prenvented the easy layup. The kick pass to a waiting wing? Of course, but the shot, if made, would only be valued as a deuce.
MR. SLILVER TEAR DOWN THAT THREE POINT CORNER SHOT!!
Let's make the three point shot a REAL three point shot.
I would have to do more research, but I'm willing to bet anyone that I'll be able to come up with some names of players who can NOT make threes except from the corner. Why would players who can't make threes from 34.9 feet be rewarded for making corner baby threes?
And, perhaps, just maybe, the absence of the corner three will lower the number of head-long-dives into the paint and allow for coaches to strategize shots coming from different spots on the floor, maybe even from midrange, be it ever so humble. I say this with great admiration for DeMar DeRozan who's made a living off the midrange jumper.
i kow so little about hockey, but I do admire the skils it takes to play Canada's national sport. Here's little poem about the game. Just for fun.
I’m cold even in this padded uniform.
I feel like I’m in the North Korean army
and we’re invading the South,
then the South is invading us,
then we’re back at it. We will go on
like this forever invading each other
on a field of ice. I feel as if I have a cage
over my head. I am ten and the ice
on the pond is cracking under my skates.
I’m twenty in the NHL, and I have no teeth.
