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Source for Finch's quote: Dane Moore on X (@DaneMooreNBA)

Source for the Instagram story: https://www.instagram.com/c_hines33/

Edit: Looks like it's just been deleted now. Or expired as it was from yesterday

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYVd0DYFaXB/

Jaylen Brown said he used fan support years ago to start again despite the fact that Brad Stevens preferred Gordon Hayward:

“Once you get the people talking about it, the front office is going to start making decisions.”

Celtics fans even started a petition:

“That eventually made the Celtics put me back into the starting lineup.”

Clarifying that I don't think changes are necessary at all anyways but if there had to be one, I saw a proposal from the creator of databallr.com that I thought was a lot more sensible than getting rid of corner threes:

"Look, everyone knows foul baiting is a problem, yet I haven’t seen many concrete solutions.

I have one.

Fouling a 3 point shooter should be 2 free throws, not 3.

It doesn’t solve foul baiting entirely. But it unquestionably improves the game.

Fouling a jump shooter is already a huge penalty. You turned a difficult shot into free throws.

But 3 shots is absurd.

An 85% FT shooter gets 2.55 expected points from a 3 shot foul.

That is equivalent to shooting 85% from three.

Think about what that means.

A wide open dunk is much less efficient.

Today I watched Austin Reaves run a high pick and roll.

The defender valiantly fought over the screen. He has to, in order to take away the pull up 3. He stayed attached.

Just as he got over the screen set by a 7 footer, Reaves suddenly slammed on the brakes, rose into marginal contact, and got 3 free throws.

That possession was worth more than any shot either team could have generated.

At that payoff, players are supposed to hunt it. If they don’t, they are playing sub-optimally.

Changing this to award 2 free throws still heavily punishes the defense.

It just stops outrageously rewarding the players who engage in the most annoyingly and effective tactics in basketball."

I personally wouldn't do this because fouling up 3 in crunch time would be even worse but could be ways to mitigate that like making sure 3 FTs are awarded for 3 point fouls. (Not a fan of ELAM ending)

Clarifying that I don't think changes are necessary at all anyways but if there had to be one, I saw a proposal from the creator of databallr.com that I thought was a lot more sensible than getting rid of corner threes:

"Look, everyone knows foul baiting is a problem, yet I haven’t seen many concrete solutions.

I have one.

Fouling a 3 point shooter should be 2 free throws, not 3.

It doesn’t solve foul baiting entirely. But it unquestionably improves the game.

Fouling a jump shooter is already a huge penalty. You turned a difficult shot into free throws.

But 3 shots is absurd.

An 85% FT shooter gets 2.55 expected points from a 3 shot foul.

That is equivalent to shooting 85% from three.

Think about what that means.

A wide open dunk is much less efficient.

Today I watched Austin Reaves run a high pick and roll.

The defender valiantly fought over the screen. He has to, in order to take away the pull up 3. He stayed attached.

Just as he got over the screen set by a 7 footer, Reaves suddenly slammed on the brakes, rose into marginal contact, and got 3 free throws.

That possession was worth more than any shot either team could have generated.

At that payoff, players are supposed to hunt it. If they don’t, they are playing sub-optimally.

Changing this to award 2 free throws still heavily punishes the defense.

It just stops outrageously rewarding the players who engage in the most annoyingly and effective tactics in basketball."

I personally wouldn't do this because fouling up 3 in crunch time would be even worse but could be ways to mitigate that like making sure 3 FTs are awarded for 3 point fouls. (Not a fan of ELAM ending)

If Jordan Clarkson did what Wemby did to Naz Reid, I'm pretty sure everyone would call for him to be suspended lmao.

One of Jayson Tatum's guys. The civil war commences!