How the 3 point line is breaking basketball

The game is at a turning point. Should the rules be changed Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don t miss any videos: The NBA introduced the 3point line in 1979, and not much changed right away. Players werent used to shooting from far out, so for the first few years, they mostly didnt. It wasnt until the 19861987 season that the league as a whole scored over 100 3s in one season. The arc of the line was shortened for a few years in the 90s, but besides that, it hasn t changed much and thats given players and coaches an opportunity to strategize around it. In 2014, statisticobsessed sports executive Daryl Morey led what many people call the 3point revolution. He used the DLeague Rio Grande Valley Vipers as a testing ground to see if volume shooting from the 3point line netted better results than shooting 2s and it worked. The math states that scoring onethird of your shots from behind the 3point line is as good as scoring half your shots from inside the l