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The NBA, the North American basketball championship and the most prestigious in the world, has changed His rule to make matches more spectacular and to help players improve their statistics. From next season, the shots from afar attempted in the last three of the first three quarters – the most risky ones, which only rarely score – will be counted in the personal statistics of a player only if made. More specifically, with shots from afar you mean the shots from a minimum distance of about 11 meters (therefore especially in your own half). If wrong, these shots in the last seconds will continue to be counted in team statistics but not in those of the player.
It is a way to encourage the heavesthe shots from very far in the last moments before the end of a quarter. I am a somewhat desperate move and in the United States they are also known as “shots of the Ave Maria”, because we have to pray because they score. Just as it is unlikely, when they go to the basket they are spectacular and often memorable.
But since the chances of making a shot of the genre are much higher than to center the basket, many NBA players preferred to avoid doing it (and therefore not helping their team) so as not to lower their realization percentages.
In NBA individual statistics have a huge weight, because the contracts of the players often they include of incentives related to the percentage of marked shots. Good statistics also serve to “sell better”: the teams rely more and more on the analysis of the data to evaluate and select the players, while experts often use numbers to explain how good or how strong a player is. For this, some players have been accused to do stat paddingthat is, to put their statistics to the team needs, forcing not very useful or sensible games for what is happening in the game, and therefore disadvantageous for their team.
It is particularly valid for three -point shots (those outside the area, while those marked from inside the area are worth two), which have become in recent years more and more important. And since the heaves They are shots from three very difficult, many tend to avoid them precisely in order not to worsen a statistics as important as that of the three points.
To realize the impact that the new rule on heaves It will have on individual statistics, just consider that if the percentage of three points of Nikola Jokic – Denver Nuggets player has been in force last season and among the few to often try this type of shots – would have gone from 41 percent to 44 percent.
It is therefore very likely that from the next season NBA there will be a greater number of spectacular shots, in line with the aim of the League to make the championship more engaging and increase its visibility. And that at the same time, as the case of Jokic shows, players’ statistics will also improve a lot. Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA (a sort of president), recently defined The Basket of the NBA A “sport based on highlights”, where that is, above all the salient and spectacular moments, whose videos often become viral on social media.
The next season of NBA will begin on October 22nd. There regular seasonthat is the first part of the championship, it will go on until 12 April 2026, while i playoffthat is, the final stages will be played until June.
