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Originally Posted by BobC
The obvious need for a 3-second rule in the paint has more to do to create a level and more fair playing field for those playing in the vastly larger area of non-professional basketball. Of all the major sports, height in basketball is likely the most overly advantageous attribute that can exist, and has literally nothing to do with a player's actual talent or ability. People can work on quickness, jumping ability, hand-eye coordination, and so on, but you can't teach or learn height. So, for the vast number of kids playing basketball at say the junior high or high school level, you are already at a severe disadvantage if you aren't lucky enough to have a student or two that is excessively tall for their age, and that actually wants to play. Remove the 3-seconds in the paint rule and you'll end up having the lucky school/team with a super tall player just have him/her stand in front of the basket and wait for their teammate to simply toss the ball to them, and they just turn around and drop it through the hoop. The shorter opposing players aren't tall enough to stop it and that isn't a game, it is just a joke. Making the opposing team's excessively tall player have to move in and out of the paint at least gives the shorter team a fighting chance to try to defend and somehow stop or at least slow down the taller player's advantage.
Changing this most basic of rules at just the pro level would likely alienate a lot of fans that otherwise expect the game to be played at least somewhat similarly to how it was when they themselves played it. That is actually one of the true beauties of baseball. Even an average looking person of typical/normal height and weight could become a superstar ballplayer. Meanwhile, the average NBA player looks almost nothing like a normal, everyday person.
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A tall player can still shoot a 3 over players as well. All teams can have Tall players guard the paint, instead of all of the 3 pointer shooters if there was no 3 second in the paint rule there could a ton of Bigs, afterall you can just pass it back to the 3 point line for a 3....3's are worth more than 2s..........basically your argument of just stop it if dont want them to shoot 3s doesnt work with the 3 second rule in the paint point i was making (they cant just stop the in the paint scoring it appears, so perhaps they cant stop the 3 point shooting either). Its not strange for a Pro league to have a different rule then the non pro leagues so that argument is flawed as well.