http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4563546&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines Well, not exactly, but: Ridiculous.
Maybe so, but Oden got travelling called on him more than a dozen times last season for exactly this, even when others didn't. It can do nothing but benefit us.
Well, Laker fans always said that to be the best of all time you need to have the game adjusted to your talents..like how the game changed to make it harder for Kareem and Wilt (or maybe it was just Wilt) to score...now the NBA has made it easier for LeBron to score.
Does that make LeBron one of the most overrated of all time if the game has to become easier for him to thrive?
It wasn't called on Dr. J (in those days) when it was the rule... I always thought it was 1 and a half steps anyway.
I hate David Stern. He will completely ruin basketball as we know it. The owners make money so they don't care. The players make more money by getting better #'s. Welcome to the American Corporations. What happened to sport? 20 years from now when fans are fed up and all this teams are broke because of their crappy products or greed (GM, Chrysler, BofA, Enron... input any Co.) we need a congresional bail out plan for the NBA.
Seems like yet another rule to help slashing players and punishing defensive big men. So it's probably a net wash for our team, since we've got both. The guys it may help the most for us is Webster and Outlaw. Neither has the greatest handle or judgment when they take it to the rim, so they tend to launch jumpers rather than risk a travel or charging foul. Anyway, the rule fucking sucks. It solves no real problem, but exposes the NBA to even more embarrassment when their players go into international competition and get called for even more traveling than they do already.
I think a better solution to the "problem" the NBA is trying to solve would have been to widen the court. NBA players are too long and too fast for the current dimensions, which are perfect for today's high school game. Damn those (hugely profitable) courtside seats.
Yeah, it's called football! Pretty soon they keep track of yards rushed! If BRoy is our starting RB, we better bring back Gary Trent to be his FB!
I'd rather keep the same court dimensions but just move fans back about 3' so guys can go for it a little more... that would encourage more spectacular plays around the edges. Courtside seats would still be expensive as hell but the game would be improved... maybe ratings would bump up to make up whatever revenues would be lost from removing a row of seats STOMP
I've often wondered why arenas don't try to implement a floating seating ring above the fans. It'd be high enough that it wouldn't impede views from the 300 row of the game, but low enough that you'd get a great view. You could suddenly cram in several more thousand seats into an arena, and they'd be fairly good views. It'd certainly take the sting off of removing a row of seats. Here's a quick photoshop I made of my idea:
Sweet! Then I could easily drop peanuts on Kobe's head! Or...what if the floor was clear and you could get seats UNDERNEATH the court! That would be a sweet seat ...especially while the Blazer Dancers were out there...
While it'd be cool to sit up in the rafters, I imagine that that would not go over well. Think of the things you could drop from above, or throw at players or fans. Plus, if you throw up? Or fall? julius wait, are we only doing the name thing in that one thread?
I don't see how this is an issue. They finally changed the rule to match how they've called it for.. well pretty much always. -bizzaro barfo
It was really three steps, depending on how you looked at it. You could take one step as you received the ball, one free step and one more step as you did something with the ball--pass or shoot (or, if you're Sergio Rodriguez, turn it over). Adding another "free step" combined with the length of current basketball players, the distance they can cover with each step...you can pretty much get from midcourt to the hoop without a dribble. Legally, now.
