Fixing Basketball
Okay, you may not think that basketball is broken.The best teams in the NBA--many of them, anyway--play a beautiful, free-flowing, highly skilled game now. It's incredibly entertaining to watch.
Then there are the free throws.
Free throws slow the game down to a crawl. It's brutal. You have this excellent game, and then a sub-game inside it that's absolute ass. Plus it's glacial.
So why don't they just shoot one free throw?
If a player gets fouled on a three-point attempt, they get one free throw that's worth three points. On a regular shot, one free throw worth two points, etc.
One and ones? They're gone. One free throw worth two points.
Yes, it's a radical change, but just think how much faster the game would become if free throws were handled this way.
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