[Van Hagar]

I see a couple of glaring reasons. The biggest to me is the three point shot.  Move the line back!  It’s close enough for guys playing now that it’s just too easy to take that shot. And the metrics say if you are making like 33% from there, then a two-point shot is a bad shot. That’s why Oats at Alabama preaches nothing but threes and layups. As a result, the midrange game has all but disappeared. There would be no place for a guy like Goose Givens, a king of midrange basketball, in today’s game.  And there is no place for a back to the basket big guy under these conditions either.

  The other thing I see is the rise of AAU basketball. Kids play on teams all summer now where all they care about is how impressive they are, not who wins a game. It filters over to the high school game, and from there on to the college level where you get guys (are you listening Cal?) who only care about how high they will go in the draft, not how can we win a game as a team. I’m afraid it may be tilted too far now though to ever come back.