Olympics Considering Three-On-Three In 2016

[key2win]

This sounds stupid and something David Stern would have thought up. LOL!

The Olympics are considering three-on-three at the 2016 Olympics.

FIBA wants to create a comprehensive ranking system that would determine the best three-on-three teams in the world.

"Like volleyball has beach volleyball, swimming has synchronized swimming, we want three-on-three to be part of it," Secretary-general Patrick Baumann said.

Baumann reasoned that three-on-three would allow more countries to experience the Olympics and help FIBA expand basketball's global popularity.

[leiber88]

Couldn't you just put some tall guy at the rim to block everything on D? Once the ball hits the rim its fair game in FIBA, so either some great dunks a la Carter over Weis or monster blocks could happen. Still sounds like a dumb idea.

[whitney777]

This is stupid.

[whalechaser]

I think it could be interesting, but agree that the goaltending rule would have to change in a half court game.