Hoops

Should the dunk be worth 4 points?

Or, if we want the dunk to have parity with an outside shot we could just remove the 3-point line [it hasn't always been there!] and let the players take the best possible shot, whether it's outside or inside.

Yes off the rebounds from the 70% missed threes but only if the flat shots don't rebound out to the three line again.

as long as the team 3-point % is around the 30s in the NBA and the NBL, and 2-point % is around 50 - 60, then how can anyone say that the bigs just pick up the crumbs? They'd be going for half of all shots taken, surely?

While I disagree with dunks being worth 4, perhaps a system like an alley-oop where the pass was thrown from behind the three point line is worth 3 instead of 2 as that is where the play originated from.

would have made Brett Rainbow an all star.
silly idea

^The one from the score bench should definitely be 300 points - makes any game winnable.

In that case, every one of these shots from the old Dave Black video will need to be separately rated on a scale from 1 - 300 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIrTFFrR-6A

LOL ....

No. Keep it the way it is.

I will have to put up with young kids thinking some freak, dunking machine is better than MJ because he averages 50ppg.

Stupid Idea.

Wow, really? No thanks...

I'd be interested to know as to how many of the posters in this thread are from the same IP...

it would possibly ruin nbl though wouldent it?

When I first read the topic title I thought it was about Dennis Rodman's recent trip to Korea and their crazy basketball scoring system:
http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/north-korea-scoring-system/177470

3 points for a dunk
4 points for a three-pointer that does not touch the rim
8 points for a basket scored in the final three seconds.
-1 for missing a free throw

Call me a traditionalist, but I like the game just fine the way it it.
Changing the rules in Australia wouldn't lift the popularity of the game. It would just make us laughing stocks.

No no no no no !

The game is already dominated enough by iso plays and big guys and players driving into the paint at all costs.

Defenders are going to try even harder to stop the dunk if it's worth 4 points, which will increase the chance of injury.

I'd rather see 4 points given for a really long shot than a dunk because at least it would reflect the difficulty of scoring it.

and another question, how do you make the difference between a light dunk and a layup where your hands above the rim?
players would be complaining to the refs if the "dunk" wasn't called as a dunk for the extra 2 points.

Would defiantly make dunks even more exciting,would make the game for exciting and there would be alot more dunks.
however, the dunk would then be over powered wouldent it? i mean if a dunk was worth more than a 3 pointer, you would start to see heaps of players just conintuing to try dunk.
maybe if it was worth 3 points.
i have thought before, that its a shame that s player could do a huge windmill and it would be worth the same as a layup.
but you cant have extra points for style.

I guess I am bias here, with two boys who can already dunk it I would love to see this innovation.

Would it encourage players in the NBL to dunk it, and would this then help us promote the game as an entertaining show to go and see and would the TV here finally get on board by showing the spectacular dunks of the week?

Could the dunk be the answer to lifting the profile of the sport down under..?

.........and the 2008 winter fixture is......where? Having already been put back 4 days, hopefully it will be released sometime tonight.