How's the 3 PT line going to change our team

[SFP]

With the the 3 pt line moving bacK a foot I wonder how that will effect our D and O. Do we have the shooters this year and is our spacing good enough to make the needed adjustment. Do we play more zone? I just wonder what new wrinkles JL and staff will throw in there.

As I said before I would like us to press a lot more this year.

[VeveJones007]

John Thompson III had a couple really good comments about the change. He said something to the effect that before the 3 point line, players would take even longer shots than they do with the line today, so he doesn't think the length will have too much effect. Also, he thinks that players will just get accustomed to shooting from the new distance, just like players got accustomed to shooting from the original 3 point line.

[Lakeview Brave]

The fact is the farther away the line the harder the shot is, teams will have to adjust. I think we will benifit from more spacing on the floor for drives and room to go one on one.

[Da Coach]

If that was what the NCAA wanted, then widening the lane would have been a better way to achieve it. I believe eventually the NCAA will do that, too.

As these kinds of rule changes often do, it might have a different effect than the NCAA expected. I think it will make teams take more outside shots, since the percentages will fall, and the teams with the better 3-point shooters will have a greater advantage than they do now.

In the end, fans of BCS schools like Maryland will complain even more that "this isn't the way basketball should be played" when teams like Butler beat them.
Remember this laugher--

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3681

[Lakeview Brave]

I actually think and have been saying for years that the entire basketball court needs to be wider. The dimensions are the same now as they have been for 50 years and players are bigger than ever.

[real fan]

I believe Bu has good enough shooters that it should not effect us as much as it will teams that do not have great shooters to begin with and it should open up the post passes a lot more.

[wingrider81]

Yep

Lakeview,
I feel like the end line should be three feet further back or
the basket should be three feet further in. My take on soccer
and hockey is more radical. LOL

Wing

[Lakeview Brave]

Lakeview,
I feel like the end line should be three feet further back or
the basket should be three feet further in. My take on soccer
and hockey is more radical. LOL

Wing

That would be really cool, the offence would run like hockey or really more like lacrosse.