Lower the hoop to 9 ft. so short, white guys can dunk. Maybe every time you miss a FT, you get to take 1 step forward for the next attempt, until you make one, then you go back to 15 ft. and start over. That way, after 3 or 4 misses, DeAndre Jordan would at least have a 70% chance of making his next FT. Not sure how true this is, but on one of the regular season games on TNT, the announcer mentioned that the reason DeAndre Jordan was shooting over 70% from the field was that the average distance of his made field goals was half a foot. BNM
I wouldn't change it either, but I just don't understand why coaches still do it. For the most part it doesn't work. The guy will often hit just enough FT's, the fouling team gets taken out of their rhythm and can't score enough to make up a significant deficit and/or it gets guys into foul trouble and the team in the penalty. Playing devil's advocate, there's a flip side to that coin. Why dumb down the game and let people intentionally foul because they can't man up and play defense? Defense is a skill, hacking a guy 50 feet from the basket is not a skill. But again, I wouldn't change the rule, just throwing that out there.
Kind of like the way every time I see Chesapeake Energy Arena it looks like Cheap Skate Energy Arena - which seems to fit given that they were too cheap to pay James Harden fair market value and instead gave him away for nothing rather than amnesty Kendrick Perkins to stay below the luxury tax threshold. BNM
It's not a skill, it's a strategy that exploits an opponent's weakness. To me, being tall isn't a skill, but if I see my 7' center under the basket posting up a 6'1" PG, I'm going to exploit that weakness, too. A big part of coaching is identifying your opponent's weaknesses and exploiting them to your advantage. Don't want to get exploited? Work on improving your weaknesses. Learn to make your FTs and learn to fight through picks so you don't switch on the high pick and roll and leave your PG guarding the other team's center rolling to the basket. BNM
I agree with Pop that as the rule stands, you coach it but it does turn games ugly and stop momentum at least for me. Diaw was patting Jordan on the back off the ball while they inbounded. My complaint is just from a viewers standpoint. The way the rule is, I'd probably coach it too
Hell. At least it's legal. The Patriots deflates footballs in a championship game and no one cared. Isn't that big a deal...... Yes. I am a Jets fan.
Yeah. I just want to see what kind of "punishment" the Pats get. Kraft ' s got his hand so far up Goodell ' s ass it's not even funny.
Well to me it's just a cheap way of trying to win a game and it's not really won by team defense like basketball is supposed to be.
It's not the god damned free-throws that are boring and turn people off, its all the fucking time outs in the fourth quarter. Jesus christ, commercial breaks every 30 seconds of basketball. lol
My wife walks into the room. I'm watching the game. "Will this be over soon?" "There's only two minutes left. Score's tied." "Oh, so 30 minutes? How can it take so long to play two minutes of a stupid game?" Yes, it's the time outs and commercial breaks. Maddening.
So you're down 2 with 9 seconds left and the shot clock off and they inbounds... Defense will win you the game? You expect a steal every time? They do all the defense on the full court press, after that, it's over. So there was your only rebuddle.
Every 3 minutes of basketball for every quarter has a mandatory time out that is 2 minues + long. Add in the myraid of timeouts of 30 second (which is still 2 minutes) and full timeouts. I forget how many there are for each time (7? 6?) So say you have 15 of those mandatory time outs. (under 9 minutes, under 6, under 3, and at the end of 1st, 2nd, 3rd) That's 42 minutes right there. (15 x 2 + 12 for the halftime, though that varies depending on whose carrying the game.) On top of that, you have all the time outs that coaches have. Add all that up, you're well up over 80 minutes. That's an hour and 20 minutes of no action. More money for them, more boredom for us. Not to mention the 4th quarter slogfest it usually is. Games typically last 2 1/2 hours, but if you did the math of it all, over half of it is not action. That's just sad.
Or you could go simple. 48 minutes is actual play time. If it's 2.5 hours long, that's 1:45 of down time.
