Excessive 3-Pointers: Ruining Basketball's Appeal?

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00:00I watched the Celtic T-Wolf game last week and I was sick to my stomach.

00:07I'm watching this game and they shot at one point there were 59 points in the game and 37 threes

00:12had been shot. By the time it was over there was like a million threes taken and I mean it was

00:18brick city. And I know that the Celtics won the game by three but that wasn't what I was watching.

00:23All I was watching was what's wrong with the NBA in some capacity. There is no fundamental

00:29reason in my view to shoot that many threes. I do not get it. I think that's what's wrong with the

00:36NBA. The NBA has began a stretch of let's say a year or two now where all they do is run up

00:42and down and shoot threes and they wonder why people aren't watching. Bob Knight said it 30

00:47years ago and I don't know whether you respect Bob Knight or not but he said 30 years ago that

00:53the three will ruin basketball. It is going to ruin the game and I think it's starting to come

01:00to fruition. I do not enjoy watching NBA guys chuck threes on every single possession.

01:06Well it's a fact that Pharrell you have teams that are shooting the most Celtics are going to

01:09shatter the NBA record for most threes taken and threes made in the season. They're going to

01:14shatter it and I can speak to this as a coach right and that's a skills trainer. Pharrell it

01:20has trickled down to the college game. It's trickled down to the high school game. I'll give

01:24you an example. I know a kid I trained as a D1 player, a mid-major D1 player that's a fantastic

01:31shooter that has been told if you take a pull-up jumper you're coming out the game. Doesn't matter

01:38if you make or miss. I've had two high school kids, big-time high school players say that their

01:42high school coach told them if they shoot a pull-up mid-range shot they're getting pulled.

01:48The problem with the NBA and with every other sport now Pharrell it's all about the analytics

01:54and these these nerds from MIT or Stanford who haven't even touched a damn basketball in their

02:02lives are now telling coaches based on the analytics this is the shot you need to take

02:08or not take. I'm done with it. I'm tired of it. Give me a minute. Hey let me tell you something

02:13folks. If you're in my if you're in the tri-state area and you come to a coach's young workout

02:18guess what you don't shoot in my workouts. That's right. Threes. Everything is footwork,

02:24pull-up, mid-range. That's why particularly the European players are better than the Americans

02:30right now because of their skill work, their footwork, and their fundamentals. Isn't it better

02:35to watch cutting and moving and passing and ball movement and backdoor layups and dunks

02:42and mid-ranges and elbow jays and guys that can knock down 12 to 18 footers? Isn't that a pure

02:48game that you love watching? At this NBA it's become unwatchable. I mean let's just face facts.

02:54Well I think the thing Pharrell is you have to understand this you know I'm gonna take it from

02:58a coach's perspective again. If I'm a coach okay and I got a kid that's a shooter especially an

03:03undersized guard I'm gonna run him off the three-point line and then I'm gonna meet him

03:08at the room with the big right because if you're not going to shoot a pull-up game contest the

03:12three run them off the line if you have a pretty good shot blocker underneath the basket then you

03:18have a chance to make it work that's when you look at a team like you know a game against Minnesota

03:21I mean the Celtics shot the Celtics shot 57 threes out of 92 attempts. That's maddening

03:30Pharrell what's happening in the NBA and the sad thing is like I said it's trickling to college

03:35it's trickling to high school and it's trickling to AU and it sucks.