What rule changes do you want to see?

The rankings are for all NBA players regardless of position, not just guards. Sorry for the confusion.

 

I disagree. Then you punish the team for working hard for offensive boards. If you do something good you should be rewarded. This IMHO would lead to worse shot percentages.

 

Good points.

Would you be OK with it if only coaches could call a time out and they could ONLY call a time out during a dead ball, and not during live play?

 

This just sounds silly. It's not the rule that creates this at all. It's out of position referees and referees who thusly call outside of their primary area of responsibility that created the flopping problem. Notice how it isn't a problem at the NCAA/NFHS level?

 

This would be the best compromise.

This is genius.

 

Frankly, you don't know what you're talking about.

 

But clearly, you'd actually enforce them properly. That would be a change.

 

I'm a purist.

 

I don't know if any of you get out and watch any Varsity HS games. But I'd be happy to post my schedule. Any of you feel free to come watch me work.

 

I would, especially if Madison High is involved.

 

Nope. You get the rebound. If you don't have an immediate putback you kick it out. Now your down to 10-11 seconds. Just time for a bad shot.

Conversely, if your opponent gets the o-board, the defense should be penalized by having to play defense for another 20-24 secs. It's really on averge like 6 seconds we'd save for every o-board.

 

Actually, I'd call for a small overhaul of the entire shotclock: it shouldn't reset to 14 on a half-court possession (i.e., when a foul occurs and play resets with the same team holding possession), it should reset to 16 (14 is a holdover from the "10 seconds to get over the half court line" era). Now, with that set up, I'd make any shot clock resets that result in the offensive team retaining the ball in their half of the court result in 16 seconds because there's no need to go back over half court.

 

But the reset to 14 vs 24 had to do with being in your half of the court already (the 10 seconds being reserved to get over half court). If you kick it out, you have the same amount of time as an inbound after a stoppage foul.

 

Meh. How many offensive boards are there a game? Not enough to institute this great of a change. This doesn't fix a problem. And of it ain't broke....

 

http://videorulebook.nba.com/archive/blocking-ra-play-defenders-foot-is-on-the-arc-line/

 

Beat me to it. Compromise. 16 seconds. Your allowed 8 in the backcourt, so give them the 16, not 24.

 

It doesn't address a problem. This is making a rule for the sake of making one.

Rule changes should fix problems.

JUST like I predicted: The flopping fines didn't fix one thing. It did exactly what I said the new rule would do. It created a new revenue stream for the NBA.

 

It doesn't address a problem. This is not fixing anything.

 

Honestly, I love the way the game is designed.

It's the politics that piss me off. The favoritism towards star players. Get rid of that shit, and the game will flourish. I don't want to see James Harden shoot 25 free throws in a game. That's the one thing that I appreciate most about the Olympics is watching refs simply not give a shit who you are or what team you play for.