Chicago media and WNBA

[sgreenwell]

Maybe what you refer to in your last paragraph is the problem.
Don't have women's sports be a almost exact copy of the men's game. My mother played six-on-six basketball.
I would not advocate anything that extreme for professional leagues, but the concept of having different styles of the games is not novel.

I'd go the other way - I found the 3-on-3 women's basketball in the Olympics pretty fun to watch. With one big and two shooters, you can't cram the paint, and it still allows for things like pick-and-roll and slashing to the hoop.