Look, everyone knows foul baiting is a problem, yet I haven’t seen many concrete solutions. I have one. Fouling a 3 point shooter should be 2 free throws, not 3. It doesn’t solve foul baiting entirely. But it unquestionably improves the game. Fouling a jump shooter is already a huge penalty. You turned a difficult shot into free throws. But 3 shots is absurd. An 85% FT shooter gets 2.55 expected points from a 3 shot foul. That is equivalent to shooting 85% from three. Think about what that means. A wide open dunk is *much* less efficient. Today I watched Austin Reaves run a high pick and roll. The defender valiantly fought over the screen. He has to, in order to take away the pull up 3. He stayed attached. Just as he got over the screen set by a 7 footer, Reaves suddenly slammed on the brakes, rose into marginal contact, and got 3 free throws. That possession was worth more than any shot either team could have generated. At that payoff, players are supposed to hunt it. If they don’t, they are playing sub-optimally. Changing this to award 2 free throws still heavily punishes the defense. It just stops outrageously rewarding the players who engage in the most annoyingly and effective tactics in basketball.