Great question. Worse than the 3 pt line. At least that is the same in all arenas. But, in the grand scheme, baseball stadia are irrelevant to basketball.
while a great question, I also hold a minority view in baseball: that the home run should be a foul, out of play. MLB has become too much of a slugfest like the NBA a 3-fest. I would like to see more hitting and running with higher batting averages rather than just swinging for the fence.
Why doesn’t the NBA have a DH?
They have James Harden, he doesn’t play defense. Many teams actually have a DH.
“Hard”, but not impossible. I’m sure they could find a few feet around the court to expand if they wanted to. It’s a good idea. The players are bigger and faster and could use a little more room.
Why doesn’t the NBA have line changes on the fly the way the NHL does? As long as you do this in the backcourt, who needs to wait for a whistle to do substitutions?
True, but I have feelings about minimum innings for starters and maximum pitching changes as well.
It’s a terrible idea. More space means less ability to help on defense. We would have 160-159 scores every night.
A couple extra feet(plus pushing the corner 3 back to a uniform distance) would increase scoring THAT much??
It may not sound like much, but 2 extra feet per side is an extra 60ft^2 below the freethrow line to defend.
Na just giving min and max works in baseball, to me anyway
But it is also offset by lower percentages on the corner 3. Also, a lot of that additional space is not in places where people will be shooting from. I think you are overestimating the impact on scoring.
Exaggerating, yes, but all that space will be places guys are scoring from as I just put the extra area below the free throw line. The slightly lower 3 point percentage will be easily eclipsed by the difficulty defending the paint with the extra space. It would be entertaining with the increase in dunks.
