Absolutely not. Ugh... You've suggested this before. The problem with this is that it would make a pass to anyone from 3 point range to anyone in 2 point range for a 3. That would not only drive the statisticians NUTS, it would look incredibly foolish and not like basketball at all. So I'm right past the 3, I throw a 5 foot lob to whoever the fuck, and they throw it in from anywhere inside the 3. Think about how ugly that would look.
Try reffing that bullshit. It would literally take 3-4 questions to determine if it's a 3. Here's the main reason why it would never happen. One ref would not be able to call it. The trail or the Center would have to look at the feet of the passer and the shooter/dunker's feet would need to be looked at by the Lead official. It just wouldn't work IMO.
I'd bet dollars to doughnuts Rudy jumped from outside the restricted line every time on most of those dunks.
I understand there are some old school people in here who want that back to the basket game restored how it used to be. The game evolves. Bigs are shooting threes now, they evolved with the game and how it’s played today. There is still room for those back to the basket bigs, example being our own nurkic. The game just evolves
"Hand Checking: A defender may not place and keep his hand on an opponent unless he is in the area near the basket and the offensive player has his back to the basket. A defender may momentarily touch an opponent with his hand anywhere on the court as long as it does not affect the opponent’s movement (speed, quickness, balance, rhythm). " http://www.nba.com/nba101/misunderstood_0708.html So it's ok to touch post players who play with their back to the basket, but it's not ok to do it to Curry if he's behind the 3 point line. Also, each referee can give his own personal interpretation to what's "affecting the opponent’s movement". I don't see what's the big deal with allowing some contact when a player is getting the ball and he's in a triple threat position. No holding, no touching with both hands, just stop calling bullshit fouls.
You're not listening. Only one ref refs a bucket. Meaning, If I'm the trail and I have a drive to the bucket, I take the primary matchup all the way to the hoop. 2 referees don't referee a score.
You cannot extend your arm. That's a foul. I see extended arms all the time. Your arm must be bent and up against your chest. NOT extended.
There is nothing to listen to. You're typing, not talking. Learn the medium you're communicating in, then complain.
If you really want to end the endless "fouling for possession" (aka: blatant hacking) and resulting parade to the FT line that causes the last 2 minutes of playing time stretch out to half an hour in real time, just make the penalty for fouling in the last two minutes progressively worse. After x fouls, the player being fouled gets 3 FTs (not the old 3 to make 2, but 3 FTs regardless of how many they make). After y fouls, you get 4 FTs. If you're dumb enough to get to z fouls, it goes up to 5 FTs. X, y and z can either be based on team fouls in the 4th quarter (my preference - I don't want teams saving up fouls for the last two minutes) or team fouls in the last two minutes. If you want to claw your way back into the game, how about playing some actual defense, rather than hoping and relying on the inept FT shooting of your opponent. BNM
I bet in 10 years this will be a more interesting conversation, but yeah, alley-oop threes should stay in Harlem Globetrotters land for now.
If a camera can do facial recognition on 100s of people a second it can keep track of 10 players on a court. Cameras are already keeping track of the distance ran by each player during a game.
