Men can exploit holes in the defense on the opposite side with a rifle shot right on the foot of a teammate. Women launch slow fluttering ducks that the other side can run down. Just as the height of a basketball hoop limits their game so do the dimensions of the pitch. By contrast, their weaknesses make their games more interesting in tennis and volleyball, where men have outgrown the smaller original dimensions of the sport. This might have happened with hoops without adding the three point line.