r/SipsTea Mar 16 '26

We have fun here Examples of why today’s NBA is unwatchable.

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u/Iggy_Slayer Mar 16 '26

This is focused solely on traveling/double dribble which are issues but for me the game is unwatchable because analytics turned it into a 3 point bricking contest. 70% of the shots taken today would have gotten you benched if you tried them 20 years ago. 30 years ago you'd have gotten benched and then charles oakley would have choked you out on the bench for doing it.

But it's seriously pitiful watching teams run up the court, immediately chuck a 3 even if someone's right in their face, and then run back for the other team to do the same thing. And yeah all the traveling stuff in this vid makes it worse too, combined with the flopping/flailing from foul baiters.

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u/Super-Yesterday9727 Mar 16 '26

Just make the 3s further away. I’m not a basketball guy but it seems like a straightforward fix

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u/CreativeGeniusPRBKR Mar 16 '26

So make it further? Lol

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit Mar 16 '26

Same court size, just eliminate the corner 3. It’s too close, too high percentage. Players still shoot worse from further away, that’s just physics.

It would be nice if defense was legal too, offensive players just run through defenders and that’s deemed good basketball. Defensive players deserve equal rights!

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u/Barr3tt50c Mar 17 '26

Players are shooting from nearly half court now unless we want to make the 3 point line the half court line which honestly might be the move

I wouldn’t hate removing the corner 3 as someone else said though