Personally I don't like the idea of making everyone conform to some narrow set of parameters that someone else has decided is the "right" way to do things.
Nothing about the game is realistic. It does have the most realistic game simulation out there. But that doesn't make it realistic. If a woman is a 4 but is standing in a room of 1s, it makes her the most beautiful woman in the room but it doesn't make her beautiful. So if someone wants to play a game with three players, why not? As Brian has so nicely pointed out in his thread about eliminating injuries,
- PG's playing Center for training (whilst also forcing some poor PF/C to chase him around for 48, but the PG gets to be reassigned to defend another guard)
- spectators basing ticket purchases on a teams prior league game, which is usually on the road. they seem to forget the great time that was had at your last home win.
- coaches that tell their team to "take it easy" before games, sometimes mutually agreeing to do this with other coaches
- the best players in BB world bouncing around from team to team every other week, with arbitrarily high salary requests that they'd rather play in the 4th division (in between NT games, of course)
If you are looking for realism, I suggest Andrew Wyeth.
Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.