>>20122I must've missed the part where basketball started with a trapezoid lane and tiny ass 3 point line!
If the international game was "basketball pure", as you claim, they wouldn't play with:
-a 3 pt line at all
-a smaller ball (this is really the one that forces the ???? response. WTF? Use the American size ball, it is our damn game after all)
-any lane at all.
Personally, I don't mind the lane, I don't think it's an issue. The 3 pt line is way too short, but that shouldn't be an issue either. The smaller ball thing is just absurd, and a huge reason why US team seem to shoot so poorly.