Siddharth(@siddharthvader_):you don't need to eliminate the 3 point line. just let the arc extend to the sidelines and remove the corner 3. this has 2 major effects: 1. corner 3s force defenses to guard all the way to the sidelines. the weakside defender can't help on drives or sit in the lane because one pass creates a ~39% three. so the paint opens up, cutters have more space, and drivers have more room. a guy standing in the corner doing nothing is still doing something since his defender can't leave. remove the corner 3 and now weakside help comes back. the paint gets more crowded and drives and cuts get harder. 2. iso plays have gone up recently because guys in the corners hold their defenders hostage and then [insert your favorite iso player here] can just go 1:1 with whoever at the top of the arc. without the corner 3, passive spacing loses its power. shooters have to live above the break where the shot is harder and defenders are more connected to the play. that probably means more movement, more screening, more cutting, more pull-ups.

2026.04.27 18:57

you don't need to eliminate the 3 point line. just let the arc extend to the sidelines and remove the corner 3. this has 2 major effects: 1. corner 3s force defenses to guard all the way to the sidelines. the weakside defender can't help on drives or sit in the lane because one pass creates a ~39% three. so the paint opens up, cutters have more space, and drivers have more room. a guy standing in the corner doing nothing is still doing something since his defender can't leave. remove the corner 3 and now weakside help comes back. the paint gets more crowded and drives and cuts get harder. 2. iso plays have gone up recently because guys in the corners hold their defenders hostage and then [insert your favorite iso player here] can just go 1:1 with whoever at the top of the arc. without the corner 3, passive spacing loses its power. shooters have to live above the break where the shot is harder and defenders are more connected to the play. that probably means more movement, more screening, more cutting, more pull-ups.

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NBA Base@TheNBABase

2026.04.26 18:31

Steve Kerr says he would consider ELIMINATING the three-point line to make the game more creative “I would never do a four-point play. In fact, I would even consider getting rid of the three-point line. I just think that the game, as it was designed, is really to create the best shots possible. That’s why in the early days, you just throw it inside to the big guy. A three-point line came from the A.B.A., in 1979, and I think it was really effective. It makes for an exciting play, but the analytics revolution has created a weird situation where we all know exactly where the highest efficiency shots are: layups and corner threes because the corner three is twenty-two feet and not 23.9, like the up above the break. You have this whole no man’s land between those areas. So if you shoot a twenty-two-footer now from the top of the key, that’s considered a really bad shot. I just wonder—and I don’t know if this would work or not—if we got rid of the three-point line, if it would diversify the way everybody would play and create a lot of different creative solutions to basketball.” (Via @NewYorker ,

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