Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nabaraz 491 days ago
I personally think the 3-point line needs to be uniform distance. It is 22 feet from the corner compared to ~24ish feet from the center.
2 comments

My recommendation is to let the home team draw the 3-point line on their court like how baseball stadiums have different dimensions.
Hm, that's an interesting idea.

But why stop there? What about the foul line, key width, court size/half court line?

I feel like the rim height is sacred, but what about backboard size/shape?

Some of these dimensions are different in the international game.

I don’t have the stats in front of me, but I’d guess more 3s are made with more backboard visible. Need to be way more accurate from the corners.

(Not that people bank off the backboard, but hit the rim, backboard, in, type accidents)