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Old 04-28-2004, 05:49 PM   #1
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Default is it true nba rims are wider than college?

I heard from different people that they are... check out this pic:
doesn't the rim look a little bigger than the ones you see at the gym?
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:54 PM   #2
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I think the photo is a little out of proportion, because his head should be bigger than the feet and legs.
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:54 PM   #3
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don't they roll 24''s in the nba?
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:55 PM   #4
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Holy crap, what a discovery! I'm calling David Stern right now!
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:55 PM   #5
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I think the photo is a little out of proportion, because his head should be bigger than the feet and legs.
Wide angle lens or some crap like that?

BTW...Shaq's feet are huge! He puts more rubber on the ground than your WRX does.
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:56 PM   #6
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don't they roll 24''s in the nba?

WT2-3YA

It's 28's

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Old 04-28-2004, 05:56 PM   #7
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The way my shots brick at the gym, I'm convinced the ball is larger than the rim.
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:58 PM   #8
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IB'depends on if kobe gets around to them'
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Old 04-28-2004, 05:59 PM   #9
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The way my shots brick at the gym, I'm convinced the ball is larger than the rim.
You just suck at the game
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:05 PM   #10
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It's all part of the temporal-spatial distortion that occurs during NBA games. It also makes it look like players driving to the basket are taking one too many steps when in fact they are not.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:06 PM   #11
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It's all part of the temporal-spatial distortion that occurs during NBA games. It also makes it look like players driving to the basket are taking one too many steps when in fact they are not.
I think that is taken straight out of the NBA ref manual
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:09 PM   #12
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It looks about right. IIRC, you should be able to fit 2 basketballs through the rim at once.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:17 PM   #13
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It looks about right. IIRC, you should be able to fit 2 basketballs through the rim at once.
the rim is exactly the size of 2 bballs, so they will get stuck and not go thru the hoop.

and the rims are the same size, because some college teams play in nba arenas like MSG. they don't tear that stuff down just for a silly amateur game of hoops, they use the same thing.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:25 PM   #14
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I found this from Google...

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/s...7211386.htm?1c

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Stephen A. Smith | Carlisle: Bigger rim would help scoring

By Stephen A. Smith

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Larry Bird was a marginal athlete. That's right, I said it! Again.

Despite the fact that Bird was slow and not known for his athletic ability, there is no denying his status as one of the greatest, most intelligent basketball players we'll ever see. Bird's hoops IQ was further validated when he hired Rick Carlisle.

Let the pundits squeal all they want. Let them chirp about Carlisle's attitude, his supposed unapproachable disposition. The newest coach of the Indiana Pacers, fresh off two consecutive 50-win seasons and Central Division titles as coach of the Detroit Pistons, had no business spending one single moment in the ultimate basketball purgatory - the NBA unemployment line - for any period over this tumultuous summer.

Bird knew it. Carlisle knew it. Even Isiah Thomas, Carlisle's predecessor, knew it.

Now Carlisle has something he wants everyone else to know:

Scoring has become a huge problem in the NBA. And he holds the solution.

"The size of the rim needs to be increased," Carlisle said, following the Pacers' 87-81 win over the New Jersey Nets on Thursday.

Carlisle proposes increasing the rim size by a one-inch radius, saying it will make the rim 5 percent bigger.

"At the very least, it should be explored. There's a problem with scoring in this league and everyone knows it, but no solution has been heard. In my mind, this is a good place to start. I certainly haven't heard anything else as a potential remedy."

I'll admit it: I thought Carlisle was insane, off his rocker, perhaps still stinging from trying to figure out how two successful seasons in the Motor City could lead to his ouster, in favor of a man (Larry Brown) he'd bounced out of the playoffs in six games almost a month earlier.

But watching this league, team-by-team, one excruciating offensive performance after another with no apparent relief in sight, it's enough to contemplate whether Carlisle is on to something.

We know the mantra about desperate times, and what it calls for.

The fact is, after the league spent the 2002-03 season averaging 44.2 percent field-goal shooting, 75.8 percent free-throw shooting, and 95.1 points per game, those statistics have dropped this season.

Thus far, the league is averaging 42 percent shooting from the field and 74.2 percent from the free-throw line. Points per game have dipped to 90.4, nearly a five-point drop from what it was just a year ago.

"Think about what it will do for free-throw percentage," Carlisle said of his expanded-rim proposal. "What it will do for balls that hang on the rim and just drop off when a guy is fouled. A lot more of those will go in. You want to make a case that zone defenses are ruining the game? Well, let's see you play zone now that the rim is bigger.

"Good defensive teams will still be good defensive teams. The common denominator would be that there would be more scoring. And it's not as if changes haven't occurred in other sports."

He has a point.

The NBA widened the key area to negate Wilt Chamberlain's impact on the game.

When Lew Alcindor was at UCLA, the NCAA prohibited dunking because of his dominance. The ruling body didn't realize the residual effect would be the sky hook, arguably the greatest offensive weapon the game has ever seen.

Baseball lowered its pitching mound to give batters more of a chance against pitchers in the Bob Gibson era. There is forever speculation that the ball is juiced.

Yet, the games have gone on. The games have evolved. Interest hasn't waned. And individual records haven't been tainted with asterisks next to names.

"I've had this idea for about two years," Carlisle said, "but I was waiting for the right time to say something. Considering how much of a problem scoring has become for us, now's the time.

"Again, I'm not saying increasing rim size is... the solution. I don't know. But I do know that no solution has been presented yet. It's worth considering, at least in summer-league action. You just never know."

Sounds crazy. Perhaps, though, it's worth asking one more question: Don't most noteworthy ideas initially endure such ridicule?
NBA and College rims are the same... but this guy wants to make NBA rims bigger. "They're not scoring as much" he whines. Maybe... just MAYBE... that's because the NBA has gone downhill in recent years, promoting grandstanding selfish play rather than teamwork and scoring.

Of course that's just my theory.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:27 PM   #15
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I remember when I was in grade school about 25 years ago and our gym teacher had a ladder in the gym. In an exercise to show us how easy making a basket should be, he climbed the ladder and put two basketballs in the rim, side by side.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:33 PM   #16
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I remember when I was in grade school about 25 years ago and our gym teacher had a ladder in the gym. In an exercise to show us how easy making a basket should be, he climbed the ladder and put two basketballs in the rim, side by side.

I wish it was that easy since an actual rim is half that size.
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I wish it was that easy since an actual rim is half that size.

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Old 04-28-2004, 06:39 PM   #18
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I dont know what I was trying to say.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:40 PM   #19
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I dont know what I was trying to say.
b3st just1fication evAr!
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:41 PM   #20
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Carlisle is an idiot

Yeah lets make the rim bigger, but put an "*" next to everyones name once all records are over taken


*- this p**** shot on a bigger rim


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Old 04-28-2004, 06:42 PM   #21
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:43 PM   #22
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All rims look a whole lot bigger when you can get closer to them.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:47 PM   #23
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I keep looking at this thread and seeing nba as sbu...and have not lost my ability to fly.
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Old 04-28-2004, 06:50 PM   #24
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the rim is exactly the size of 2 bballs, so they will get stuck and not go thru the hoop.

and the rims are the same size, because some college teams play in nba arenas like MSG. they don't tear that stuff down just for a silly amateur game of hoops, they use the same thing.
The goal has an inside diameter of 18"
The ball is 9.5"
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Old 04-28-2004, 07:03 PM   #25
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Yeah, the rim is not the size of 2 basketballs. Stand underneath the rim and shoot the ball. You tell me if you think two basketballs can fit through the rim. And I'm not talking about ladies balls.
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