Huggins on moving the three point line

[Michael Ryan]

Under the article in today's Enquirer about Mick Cronin are Huggins'
thoughts about making rules changes - 

Huggins has a suggestion for all those on the rules committee who met in
Indianapolis last week to discuss widening the lane and moving back the
3-point line: The game is fine.   Leave it alone.   "I'm not for
widening the lane," he said. "We don't have post guys left anyway. It's
not like everybody's got Shaq down there. I like our game better than
the European game. I don't understand." 

There's also a proposal to extend the 3-point line from 19 feet, 9
inches to the international standard of 20 feet, 6 inches and widen the
lane from 12 feet to either the NBA distance of 16 feet or the trapezoid
used in international competition. 

Huggins said the current 3-point distance adds excitement.  "If it's too
close, they shouldn't have put it where they did when they first did
it," he said. "Where the 3-point line is, it's good for high school
kids. It's good for the women. So we're going to move it back for
college kids and keep it the same for high schools and the women? Why
don't they move the basket up to 11 feet?" 


Mike Ryan