Hoops

New NBL Commission

Or are you suggesting only the NBL does this and we change courts just for the NBL, therefore try and change the game for TV or something?

My "metre each side" wish is just in an ideal world, from a playing perspective.
I realise that there are practicalities to be considered before just pulling the trigger on such a change.

I don't necessarily think that the arc needs to be extended btw. To me that is a separate issue. It has only recently been increased, and I think it is pretty good where it is atm.

@Mick, that theory in widening the shooting lanes by extending the arc to open up the game is possibly flawed because of two basic principles.

1. Defenders can hedge and they will do this even more if they know the shooter is less likely to hit the long range open shot.

2. Widening the arc will make it harder for shooters to hit an open shot, therefore they will become less relevant.

What might happen is the game ends up less entertaining because all we see is long range bombs that miss and the other team rebounds it or everyone wants to drive it through the bigger gaps but defenders focus more in closing them so the ball gets kicked out for that longer range open miss, again!

This would be much worse the lower down the grades we go, remember we share courts at almost all venues.

Or are you suggesting only the NBL does this and we change courts just for the NBL, therefore try and change the game for TV or something?

Last night's game proved to me that there is nothing wrong at all with our courts, we just need to accept that some games are better than others...

If the court isn't broken, why do we need to fix it.

If there is one thing that this commission needs NOT to mess with it is the court, its lines and its dimensions!

Leave the game alone, it is fine, concentrate of the NBL and its future viability, how teams can stay legitimately financial and improve the development pathways in Australian basketball.

This is where a Commission is needed, not worrying about changing lines and courts to suit some fanciful idea that whenever we see athletes become better we need to make it harder for them, seriously...

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44 minutes might fit.. ;)

why wont 12 minutes work? Most of the telecast this year so far have been finishing around the 100 minute mark.

I don't see the stepping out of bounds thing as the problem that would be solved by widening the court. That's just a potential bonus side effect.
I think it would make defence more difficult, and therefore increase both perimeter and paint scoring.

It doesn't happen that often. And when it does, it's generally places like Perth or Vector with no out-of-bounds decals/paint, or Hisense where there's six inches between the sideline and the out-of-bounds decals/paint.

So there's an easier solution to the problem, that would also make the courts look more professional and individual.

There's not that much room:

Good call on the court widening thing.
I'm definitely on board with that, and agree that it would instantly improve the product on the court. Would love an extra metre each side.

I agree with Mick. I still can't believe how often players step out on the wings. If the court was just a little wider there'd be no problems.

The main change to court dimensions I'd like to see are widening the key and extending the 3 point line. Also, bring in the NBA style illegal defence rules. That will still allow a limited zone, but will open up the key to create more exciting, open play. Then we won't have Perth turning the key into a mosh-pit every game, which just makes for ugly basketball.

The Commission should focus on getting rid of the ugly uniform, immediately and eradicate it from our beautiful game once and for all time...

I really don't think it's a good look for a comp to have fewer than 8 teams so it's a good thing the Crocs are still around this season. I think it was worth giving them another shot back in a proper venue too.
They seem doomed if their round one attendance is anything close to the norm though :(

Along with massive popularity and profits

What's the problem with quarter? The 1 & 3 quarter time breaks are pretty much just guaranteed TV timeouts anyway. It's not like they are long.
If we want the product to be viable for tv then we need to keep it tv friendly.

I've never understood the big hangup over 10 vs 12 minute quarters either. If 12 is prohibitive to tv then avoid it. It's that simple IMO. If 11 works then go with 11. Just make sure each player then gets 5.5 personal fouls before they are disqualified ;)

Most games the past four years have clocked in at 103-104 minutes of actual broadcast. No way games are finishing at about 100 minutes including commercials.

For the most part, it was closer to 110-115. You can't get an extra eight minutes of basketball in there.

There's only one of them.

12mins will never ever ever happen even though they did in the not so distant past. Yeah okay

I agree kobe, though something needs to be done to help perenially sucky teams that local fans wont wan't to support any more..

So what's the difference between a commission and a board?

12-minute quarters will never, ever, ever happen.

Automatically helping out the bottom two teams is unnecessary. If 7th misses the playoffs by two games, and then you give them an extra import, or a salary cap exemption...