The amount of shots they missed isn't good basketball, that's right.
But they're both bad teams, so it really doesn't matter what shots they take, because they're going to have games where they miss a high volume of shots.
Bad teams miss shots, every day, b.
The league-average 3-pt% this season is 36%, which is right in line with the percentage it's been for the last 20 years, so it's not like teams are missing a greater percentage of threes now. If teams like the Hornets stopped taking 3s, they'd still be missing shots like they do now because they're straight-up a bad team who're missing their best player to generate good shots for them.
Listen, I don't have a dog in this fight, but you're taking up for something that doesn't call for such a staunch defense.
Look at the NFL, and look at their kickoff rule specifically. That one play has gone through almost an annual re-examination, reformation, and ultimately a referrendum:
in real time with consumers.
Next year, they're likely to change the rules yet again, as the endless search continues in balancing dynamic game play with equitability and fairness to the players playing the game. This isn't something that's unique to the NFL, that is what "game masters" do. Video games get patched, rules get changed, games get updated. Start listing games that DON'T change their rules. Can you name a video game that hasn't received a patch? A sports league that hasn't changed their rules? It's going to be a short list.
This is part of the process. What you're living through, right now.
1. Game gets released: modern NBA game is played
2. Power gamers break it: analytics advises to spam the three
3. Casuals complain that power gamers broke the game: fans stop watching the nba
4. Devs patch the game: <------ we are here
5. Power gamers complain that devs nerfed the game: back to step 1
Sometimes this plays out over the course of months, sometimes years, sometimes decades.
Pitch clocks
Declared onside kicks.
Shrinking and growing NHL goal sizes.
NCAA playoff brackets
NFL playoff brackets
MLB playoff brackets
divisions
scheduling formulas
pass interference rules
instant replay review rules
zone defense
man defense
All of these are constantly in flux. Constantly changing, constantly being abused and spammed by participants, constantly evolving to create dynamic competitions.
Go watch season 1 of survivor, and then watch the most recent season. See how much the game has changed.
To act like the NBA is somehow above this process, or removed from it, or should be innoculated from it because of (insert whatever your contention is here) is absurd. It is as much a part of the life cycle of a game as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. People play games to have fun, which is an ephemeral reason but none the less can be measured pretty adequately through engagement numbers and general discourse. Right now, people interested in the NBA game think 3s are being spammed. You can't fairly say this isn't a problem: It is the definition of a problem. How the league chooses to deal with that is a completely different conversation. It's fine if you think that spray and pray gameplay is desirable due to the point economy of the game, but if you think you can brow beat the game watchers into agreeing with you, youre fundamentally disregarding the nature of games themselves.
How???
