Courses were Tiger proofed.

If you lift it up, rim defense markedly changes too

Challenges at the cup are entertaining

No current player would ever want to see the height changed as the years put in to learn how to hit a target 10 feet off the ground at various ranges becomes a huge negative rather than a huge positive.

For the last 25 years, the game has been progressively less and less dominated by 7 footers. That's a great thing. Think of the 90s. Shaq, Robinson, Hakeem, Ewing, Mutombo, etc. And every team has 2 back up 7 footers. Guys like Bill Wennington, and Will Perdue. Theres far less 7 footers in the game now. Again, a good thing.

You ever try watching the WNBA? That might be for you. Most of the players probably can't reach the rim.

Yeah, if anything maybe make the rim smaller. Awarding defenses 1 point for stops, reviewing all fouls, and delaying foul shots until end of quarters would also be big improvements to the NBA game.

Delaying all fouls shots til end of quarters is something I can totally sign off on.

Awarding points for defense is ridiculous.

How about 1 point for block + turnover and for a steal?

Would give an interesting wrinkle to the game.

make a 3-point shot worth 4, a regular shot worth 3 points and a free throw 2

any shooting foul is 2 free throws

And why is that?

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If anything move the 3 point line back

It is wildly unrealistic to have the rim be a different height in high school or college than it is in the NBA. Everything about shot-making is geared toward the height of the rim.

If you raised the rim, you would need to do it across the board. Also, raising the rim to 11 feet is absurd unless you want to mostly eliminate dunking.

I don't know where you got the idea that "so many" players can go up to 13 feet. That's the top of the backboard. The number of people with verified jumps of that height are very, very few. If asked me to bet on whether there was a single player in the NBA who could walk out on a court tomorrow and touch 13 feet, I honestly don't know which way I would go.

Maybe not a single player in the NBA could do so tomorrow.

But after the draft?!?

I think the game is fine. There's hardly any dunks in the playoff games I've been watching. Most drives turn into layups and floaters.

And there's extremely few players who can reach the top of the backboard, if any, wtf are you talking about?

I have no idea what you're trying to fix.

You score by putting the ball in the basket. No other way (other than goaltending, which makes perfect sense). Wtf at scoring by playing defense.

Free throws are incredibly boring and are basically useful as a rest. Only those clutch free throws at the end of the game have any entertainment value.

I wonder if some method similar to how free kicks work in soccer might be more exciting. You get fouled on a shot, boom, you get one shot from there. Bonus fouls and fouls right at the basket could still be shot from the line.

If you want a game accesible for short people play soccer. Short people dominate soccer. Should we change the rules?

Rim should be three meters. Ten feet is just stupid.

Nique could take a quarter off the top of the backboard. No idea how the quarter got there but he was famous for this back in the day.

OP needs to come back sover

Short people are such whiners. So life ****ed you over.

You score in tennis with defense, that is the other player errs and you get the points.

You score in golf when the other player(s) make bad scores. That is, your margin improves by other players messing up.

In snooker you score points when your opponent fouls.

In football your team scores when the other team gets a safety.

That's 4 just off the top. I'm sure there are others.

To me the idea of free throws is an artifact of how the game was played a hundred years ago. The whole construct of a free throw has no resemblance to the rest of the game. Guys lining up in a special spot, pushing and shoving each other, with fouls rarely called. Players going in the lane early almost 100% of the time, again almost never called, unless the reffs decide they want to. The shooter getting a free shot 15 feet away, and why 15 feet and not 10 feet or some other arbitrary distance IDK.

I get why the NBA game needed free throws in the past, because it was probably the simplest solution to reward the team fouled and penalize the team committing the foul. But technological advances are available now that permit New York to review every foul call in real time using multiple camera angles. Bad calls are thrown out, proper calls are enforced at end of quarter. Each team can have their own designated FT shooter to reduce rewarding Hack-a-Shaq. Keep a running tab on FTs for each team on the scoreboard, so everybody knows the potential score. This would also address flopping, which is becoming an embarrassing problem in the NBA.

3 point shots are reviewed in real time and scores are changed accordingly. My FT suggestion makes as much sense as the 3 pt review.

I would resume in-game FTs with 5 minutes remaining in regulation, and OT.