3 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

It comes down to the ANAL-ytics goofs surmising that shooting better than 33% from 3-point range was preferable to shooting 50% from anywhere else on the floor. Where there were only so many skilled big men to go around, any 6-foot tall chucker can just heave it up from outside. Who cares if it isn’t entertaining?

Move the 3-point line back one foot and raise the rim 6 inches. You’ll have a better, more watchable game.

Rim height has to be universal with all levels of basketball. Thats the least realistic rule change possible; every player in the NBA trained their whole lives at exactly 10 feet. Even 1 inch off will disrupt everything. At 6 inches every player in the league loses their shot and the NBA is irreversibly damaged.

Conversely, I don’t think 6 inches or even 1 foot for the 3pt line is enough. If your intent is to revert the game back to what it was in the 90’s and 2000’s, move it back 3 feet. Steph and Dame and Trae stop being game-changers and just become this era’s Ray Allen and Reggie Millers, and everyone else’s 3 ball tendencies goes down. 1 foot won’t stop the guys who shouldn’t be shooting 3’s from shooting them like Draymond and Lebron and Wemby. But 3 feet definitely will

4 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Rim height has to be universal with all levels of basketball. Thats the least realistic rule change possible; every player in the NBA would lose their shot they spent their whole lives constructing and it would destroy the game

Conversely, I don’t think 6 inches or even 1 foot for the 3pt line is enough. If your intent is to revert the game back to what it was in the 90’s and 2000’s, move it back 3 feet. Steph and Dame and Trae stop being game-changers and just become this era’s Ray Reggie Millers, and everyone else’s 3 ball goes down. 1 foot won’t stop the guys who shouldn’t be shooting 3’s from shooting them like Draymond and Lebron and Wemby. But 3 feet definitely will

3 feet is a lot. Especially considering if you moved 3 feet out on the corner 3s it’s non existent anymore. Cause currently i believe it’s 22 feet. If move that out it’s 25 feet. From the basket to the out of bounds line (just after corner 3) it’s 25 feet. I think a foot helps a lot. Makes that 23 feet and nba guys already struggle sometimes to stay in bounds over in the corner. The arc is around 23.9 feet (just about). Moves out to 24.9. I’d be fine making it 25 feet flat. I think that’s enough to make much harder to hit. Don’t want to entirely take it away just make it so it’s not Boston just jacking up 60% of their shots from 3. I think it would reduce it. However reducing the 3 might also create more guys flopping or begging for foul calls as they are driving more

Would've been nice to have those 4ths but Lemon would've been gone obviously and having to settle on a non first round graded guy in round 1 would've felt like an L.

2 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Would've been nice to have those 4ths but Lemon would've been gone obviously and having to settle on a non first round graded guy in round 1 would've felt like an L.

Not sure it would have. Lawrence would have been awesome at 23. We will see how Lemon works out, as well as some of the players we could have had with those 4th round picks.

18 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Even though it was Dallas, I love watching behind the scenes stuff like this.

21 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Not sure it would have. Lawrence would have been awesome at 23. We will see how Lemon works out, as well as some of the players we could have had with those 4th round picks.

Lawrence and Lance and/or Skyler Bell

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Also, just not that old.

Yes, ball has only happened in your lifetime…

Gotta love Howies reputation around the league when other teams are scared to call first and look weak

25 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Not sure it would have. Lawrence would have been awesome at 23. We will see how Lemon works out, as well as some of the players we could have had with those 4th round picks.

Yet Saban called him a reach…

2 hours ago, ToastJenkins said:

Doesnt know Tark = doesnt know ball

Well, its history, anyway.

I'm curious what the record is on players that dramatically shoot up the draft boards ala Stribling and (to a lesser extent) Lawrence.

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

Of course, Greenberg can’t help but be an idiot and act like a DAL-PHI draft day trade is completely unheard of.

@vikas83 I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of how dismal Nick Wright is, but at least he could use the excuse of not being around for decades as Greenberg. The many years of Mike&Mike was Golic hosting alongside a moron until they offered the moron a TV job.

1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said:

Yes, ball has only happened in your lifetime…

the only ball that I have ever watched.

1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said:

Yet Saban called him a reach…

And Saban is a failure in the NFL. I doubt anyone watched the all college telecast on draft night. That was dumb.

If Lemon is a stud we have Dallas to thank for our two WR’s

28 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

I'm curious what the record is on players that dramatically shoot up the draft boards ala Stribling and (to a lesser extent) Lawrence.

It seems pretty good. The first names that come to my head are some CBs over the years. Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Quinyon Mitchell.

Jalyx Hunt? Verdict still out but looking promising.

Of course there are misses like the WR Stephen Hill....

DGunn is STILL hacked and it’s been like 3 months. They changed his name to LunchableLord Gunn.

2 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

Not sure it would have. Lawrence would have been awesome at 23. We will see how Lemon works out, as well as some of the players we could have had with those 4th round picks.

The Cowboys still would have taken Lawrence at 20.

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

The Cowboys still would have taken Lawrence at 20.

ok. Lawrence, or Thieneman, even Iheanachor.... considering we may have wasted that pick on Bell Id be fine with Iheanachor in hindsight. We will see how it plays out. I didnt like the value and still dont.

Math checks out

Ok the nba discussion, should be better playoffs going forward if you don’t love the 3 point shooting being the end all be all

25 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

ok. Lawrence, or Thieneman, even Iheanachor.... considering we may have wasted that pick on Bell Id be fine with Iheanachor in hindsight. We will see how it plays out. I didnt like the value and still dont.

I think if the top 15 players were gone, Howie would have traded back. It's possible that they had Thieneman in their top 15.