Just Me Over Here Solving Basketball Forever

I don't wanna be the old man yelling at those goddam kids to get the hell off my lawn, but I think it's a fairly universal feeling that today's NBA misses a certain balletic feel of ball movement from decades long past due to it pretty much being all 3s/dunks all the time now, and I guess I don’t have a more workable solution but if I was the richest person in the world I'd pay everybody 4x their normal salary to play without the 3-point line for one year, after which a decision could be made about whether or not to continue playing that way based on the preferences of both the players & fans.

According to my bff ChatGPT (hi ChatGPT! 👋👋👋👋): 

Without the 3-point line, you’d probably immediately get: way more midrange play
more post-ups
more cuts/screens/ball movement
fewer “drive-and-kick endlessly until someone’s open”
different body types becoming valuable again
defenses collapsing inward, which could actually create prettier passing sequences

And the biggest thing: players would stop spacing the floor 28 feet from the hoop all the time, which absolutely would create a more compact, choreographed-looking game. “Balletic” is honestly the right word. 

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