r/michael_jordan

Recently I made a post criticizing 3 pointers as it made the game boring. Interestingly more people disagreed with me than agreed.

So, I looked into what Michael Jordan said about it.

​Why MJ Disliked the 3-Pointer:

​It Promotes Passivity: MJ believed that once players fall in love with the three, they lose their aggressive edge. Instead of breaking down a defense or attacking the paint, they tend to stand around the perimeter waiting for spot-up opportunities

Here's a quote from him:

"My three-point shooting is something I don't want to excel at because it takes away from all phases of my game. My game is fake, drive to the hole, penetrate, dish off,... When you have that mentality of making threes, you don't go to the hole as much. You go to the three-point line and start sitting there waiting for someone to find you. That's not my mentality, and I don't want to create it because it takes away from the other parts of my game."

What Jordan said was exactly what I meant in my previous post, when players see they can score most points from arc line, they won't bother going inside the arc at all, and that makes the game very monotonous. Today like 40%-50% of all shots are 3 pointers, earlier days it used to be less than 10%.