Basketball Strategy Question

[Bob Steele]

I would be curious to see how human basketball would be played if you could take shots from the foul line without any defense... I have a huge feeling that the game would be played from the foul line. In human basketball, defense is totally different... and there is only one ball...

Before robotics, I played and coached basketball for quite a long time... long enough to see a player from the high school I taught and coached at to play in the NBA finals. Defense is what dictates human basketball... a team uses 3 point shots to open up the middle so they can score inside... if defense were played on 3 point shooters one of two things would happen... first that player would drive to the basket... and either shoot or dish off.. or two... that player would find a player closer to the basket under less defensive pressure to pass to and take the shot.

In human basketball... a defense does not want to play defense on the 3 point shooter... bad things happen... you commit a foul and the player gets 3 foul shots.. it also means one on one defense... the closer you are to the basket the tighter the offensive players are together... one defender can play multiple offensive players... easier to double up...

Frankly if basketball where played like our game... it would be a simple issue of getting the ball to someone at the foul line... and then turning around and shooting it without ANY defensive pressure...
In the NBA... with a few notable exceptions...(primarily inside players...) ALL players have better shot percentages from foul shots than court shots...

In our game... there is not even any advantage from shooting outside..
(No 3-point rule)

Someone asked why a player would take a long-non 3-pointer in an NBA game... they would because they were under less defensive pressure... simple as that..
defense dictates where the shot is taken...