Steve Kerr wants to eliminate the three-point line entirely. Phil Jackson wants to widen the court. Both ideas have merit, but honestly? They’re either too drastic or too expensive. I’ve got a simpler proposal that nobody seems to be floating, and I think it actually solves the problem.

Keep the three-point line exactly where it is — except in the corners.

Right now, the corner three sits at 22 feet, about 18 inches closer to the basket than the rest of the arc. That shorter distance is the whole reason analytics-driven offenses have made it the most valuable shot in basketball. Defenses have to honor it, which spaces the floor, which opens driving lanes, which creates kick-outs, which leads to more corner threes. It’s a loop that’s made the modern NBA increasingly predictable.

Here’s my fix: extend the corner portion of the arc to the same 23 feet 9 inches as the rest of the line, without widening the court.

Do the math. An NBA court is 50 feet wide, meaning there’s 25 feet from the basket to each sideline. At 23 feet 9 inches, you’ve only got 15 inches between the arc and the out-of-bounds line. A men’s size 12 shoe is roughly 12 inches long. You need both feet behind the line to hit a legal three. The geometry simply doesn’t work. You haven’t banned the corner three — you’ve just made it physically impossible to shoot legally from there.

No new rule language. No arena renovations. The line does the work.

But here’s what I think is the real payoff: it doesn’t just eliminate a shot, it changes how defenses think. The corner three’s value was never just the shot itself — it was the threat of the shot. Right now a defender has to honor four or five perimeter spots at once. Take the corner off the board and suddenly a defender can cheat off that spot, clog driving lanes more aggressively, and rotate more freely. The entire defensive calculus shifts.

And offenses? They’d have to actually get creative again. No more parking a big man in the corner to stretch the floor while everyone watches. You’d need movement, cuts, and — dare I say it — mid-range jumpers. You know, basketball.

Kerr and Jackson are both right that the corner three is the problem. They’re just thinking too big about the solution. You don’t need to blow up the game or rebuild every arena in the league.

You just need 15 inches.

One of the saddest things I’ve ever read…

“Your property near Baugo Creek in Wakarusa was once part of northern Indiana’s pre-settlement landscape, dominated by mature mixed hardwood forests before European settlers cleared it for farmland around 175-200 years ago.

Forest Composition Picture a dense canopy of towering oak-hickory trees—white oak, black oak, shagbark hickory—mixed with beech, sugar maple, and scattered ash or elm, reaching 100-150 feet tall with girths wider than a person’s arm span. The understory would feature younger saplings, ferns, wild ginger, and spring wildflowers like trout lily, with sunlight filtering through in dappled patterns on an uneven, leaf-littered floor.

Creek Influence Along Baugo Creek, envision a wetter “lowland-depressional” zone: sycamore, silver maple, and cottonwood lining the banks, with buttonbush thickets and skunk cabbage in low spots, fed by the creek’s gentle flow over rocks. Beavers might have dammed sections, creating small ponds alive with frogs, herons, and pileated woodpeckers drumming on snags.

Ground and Wildlife The forest floor would feel spongy underfoot, rich with decaying logs hosting fungi, salamanders, and insects; deer trails weaving through, and the air thick with bird calls amid occasional prairie openings nearby. This mosaic reflects 87% of presettlement Indiana’s forest cover, now mostly gone.”

I asked perplexity.ai what my property would have looked like before settlers wiped out the native old growth forest.

I ask God if a “new Earth” can feature my home place restored to such grandeur.

I hope so.

It’s a small thing undertaken by a puny man like myself to plant trees and watch them grow on this 3 acres of abused ground. Every year it gets better, but I will be long gone before I see it in its glory.

How could they not have seen the impact on surface temperatures row-cropping would have? Somewhere back there in time, I wonder if one of my own ancestors cleared the forest to make a life.

A High School English experience that doesn’t require you to read at least 20 full length books over the course of four years is a complete failure. Students should be reading 4-8 full length works of literature per year. Reading endless excerpts, many of them A.I. generated, on screens as “test prep” is no solution to the massive literacy problem we face. There is good evidence that it is the main cause of it.

After a lifetime of Windows PCs, since September I’ve been using a MacBook Air. Being somewhat familiar with the ecosystem from being an iPhone and iPad user for years made the transition smoother, I suspect.

The MacBook Air is incredible.

Once you go Mac, you’ll never go back.

You might get advice to teach by starting with a stated “outcome” in view and then look for content to serve that end.

My teaching got so much better when I did the opposite: I started with great books and let them work their magic, enchanting the souls of students and leading us in surprising directions.