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		By: greyCat		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Luke Winn over at Sports Illustrated wrote a long piece on this back in June just after the NCAA moved the line back. You can find it here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luke_winn/06/19/three.point/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How the new...http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luke_winn/06/19/three.point/index.html&lt;/a&gt;. I used several of his points to &lt;a href=&quot;http://vbtn.blogspot.com/2008/07/3-point-line-luke-winn-and-big-east-pt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;look at the Big East teams&lt;/a&gt; next season, though I confess I did not consider home/away 3FGM differentials. Interesting work.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Luke Winn over at Sports Illustrated wrote a long piece on this back in June just after the NCAA moved the line back. You can find it here: <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luke_winn/06/19/three.point/index.html" rel="nofollow">How the new&#8230;</a><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luke_winn/06/19/three.point/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luke_winn/06/19/three.point/index.html</a>. I used several of his points to <a href="http://vbtn.blogspot.com/2008/07/3-point-line-luke-winn-and-big-east-pt.html" rel="nofollow">look at the Big East teams</a> next season, though I confess I did not consider home/away 3FGM differentials. Interesting work.</p>
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		By: Rob Dauster		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I pretty much agree with KJ, but I think there is more to it than that. Full thoughts here: http://ballinisahabit.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-will-benefit-from-longer-3-pt-line.html

Took a while to type it out, and it is way to late to do it again.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I pretty much agree with KJ, but I think there is more to it than that. Full thoughts here: <a href="http://ballinisahabit.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-will-benefit-from-longer-3-pt-line.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://ballinisahabit.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-will-benefit-from-longer-3-pt-line.html</a></p>
<p>Took a while to type it out, and it is way to late to do it again.</p>
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		By: kj		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interesting theory.  My guess is that the impact will be fairly negligible.  If you look at data on shooting percentage by distance from the basket, the drop-off from the old 3-point line to the new one is pretty small.

http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=191

http://www.spartansweblog.com/2008/06/23/twelve-more-inches-to-get-the-extra-point/

In the end, the longer line may impact 2-point scoring, by opening up more room for posting up and cutting, than it does on 3-point scoring.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting theory.  My guess is that the impact will be fairly negligible.  If you look at data on shooting percentage by distance from the basket, the drop-off from the old 3-point line to the new one is pretty small.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=191" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=191</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.spartansweblog.com/2008/06/23/twelve-more-inches-to-get-the-extra-point/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.spartansweblog.com/2008/06/23/twelve-more-inches-to-get-the-extra-point/</a></p>
<p>In the end, the longer line may impact 2-point scoring, by opening up more room for posting up and cutting, than it does on 3-point scoring.</p>
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