New NBA Rules
by Big Mickey D on Nov 2, 2009 3:35 PM MST
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There are dozens of rules in the NBA that need to be changed. The following is a partial list of legit changes as well as some silliness that ought to be considered too. Feel free to add yours. There are no stupid suggestions only stupid Commissioners:
1.) Offensive Goal Tending is a stupid rule and needs to go away. Who is getting cheated when someone breaks this rule? The stat keeper?
2.) Flopping should be a technical foul just like illegal defense. In fact, flopping should be classified as illegal defense.
3.) Players should not be able to plead their cases to officials while the clock is moving or while the ball is in play (free throws.) You (Tim Duncan) wanna waste your own time-out or play stoppage to explain to the officials how you get fouled every time you touch the ball even though you yourself have NEVER actually committed a foul, go for it. When the clock is moving and when guys are shooting free-throws, it's our (the fan's) game, not yours...
4.) Speaking of free-throws... If your shooting percentage is under 80% you have to shoot grannies until it's back above 80%. You think guys would make more free-throws and actually work on their shot (Shaq) if the penalty is shooting like you're playing in the 50s?
5.) You should be able to kick the ball on defense. Chances are you will kick it out of bounds and the offense will maintain possession anyway. Having a kicked ball penalty or play stoppage is a waste of time. There is no rule against heading a ball. Why? Because, chances are, it wouldn't EVER benefit the person who did it so it doesn't change the outcome of the play much at all. Same with kicked balls.
6.) If a player gets "caught in the air" and the ball handler jumps into him it is not a shooting foul. Why? Because that player wasn't actually shooting, and if they were, they were choosing the lowest percentage shot available to them. A foul? Yes. But not a shooting foul. Anyone who has ever played has done this and we've all felt like it was one of those basketball "loopholes." The NBA is too great to have loopholes.
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Free Throw percentage amendment
If you are shooting below 60% you HAVE to wear a skirt. AND if you finish youre career with 65% or lower you have to get that tattooed on your lower back.
by SternfluffsKobe on Nov 2, 2009 3:48 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
Offensive Goal Tending
A necessary rule so that the offense does not have an advantage around the rim over the defense. If you allow offensive “goal tending” then you would have to allow defensive “goal tending”. Not a silly rule … just a fair rule.
I agree with you
But since I play streetball (no fouls) it doesn’t matter to me. Also, I really don’t want to see Shaq in a skirt. I’ve already had headaches for a long time seeing Shaq in a super-tight speedo. Man, he’s fat…
"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything." -John Elway
How so?
Explain the advantage around the rim theory and why you would have to allow defensive goal tending. If the ball is going in and the defender swats it away, that isn’t fair and should be called. If the ball is going in and an aggressive offensive player has position on the ball (keep in mind that if he didn’t have position it is almost absolutely a loose ball foul) and helps it go in, who gets cheated except maybe the shooter who goes from 2 points to 1 assist?
Might as well hang bird from the rim on offense
Then just throw it up towards the top of the backboard and he’ll go get it and slam it down!
Goal tending doesn’t just apply to balls that are going in. On defense if the ball is coming out, you have to wait for it to fully clear the rim. If you let the offensive player rebound the ball before it clears the cylinder, then the offensive rebounder has a big advantage over the defensive rebounder.
O goaltending
I see what you’re saying but the rule behind goaltending is taking the ball out of it’s downward direction towards the hoop ie: it wouldve gone in if you hadn’t messed with it. So with that said, if it’s already going in what does it matter if another offensive player touches it.
by SternfluffsKobe on Nov 2, 2009 9:41 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
Still an unfair advantage
In the situation you describe you are still allowing the offensive player control over an area where the defensive player does not have equal access. Although almost all referee decisions are “judgment” decisions you are now adding another one … was the ball going to go through anyway or not? … seems like a simple and obvious decision until you remember how many times a ball was going in and rimmed out. In short, you have to draw a line somewhere and having offensive goal tending that corresponds to defensive goal tending makes the same area “off limits”. That is probably the most equitable way to do it. Even then you have judgment calls. A later post suggests a 9 foot basket so he can reach it … mine would have to be a little lower than 9 feet … give me the kind you hang on your door.
okay then
explain alley-oops then. is it a judgement call by the ref? and dont tell me that its obvious when someone is shooting as opposed to passing ei; Shawn Marion’s jump shot….
by SternfluffsKobe on Nov 3, 2009 7:44 PM MST up reply actions
It's the point of contact with the ball
In an alley-oops play the player receives the ball outside the cylinder of the rim and carries it into the cylinder (offensive and defensive goal tending involves touching the ball after it is already in the cylinder and has not yet come out). The defensive player has the same right to the ball on an alley oops play as long as he can get it to it without fouling. Obviously there is the possibility that the pass could go over the top of the basket from the baseline to the opposite side of the basket … but most (more than most) alley oops plays come from the front or side of the key to the side of the basket at an angle and not directly over the basket. The player that is putting the final touch on the shot does not “catch” the ball over the rim but at the side and brings it in. If he does “catch” the ball within the cylinder it would be offensive interference. The defensive player has just as much right to that ball in an alley oops play. Sometimes the line between an alley oops and goal tending is pretty thin - just like the line between a charge and a foul or, in baseball, a ball and a strike or, in football, pass interference and no call. As I said before, there is always some judgment involved in nearly every call by an official in all sports. Just because judgment enters into it does not make it invalid. The only way to get rid of that is to play computer sports … and even then the judgment of the programmer would be suspect :)
Probably should have added
Should have added … not only is the ball in the cylinder but also on a downward path into the cylinder … again, judgment.
Sheesh
All that and I stll think it’s dumb rule! Thanks for taking the time though…twas well written. How about lumping that rule into the “getting sacked and fumbling the same time” in football. A sack is a tackle. A tackle means you’re down. If your already down you can’t fumble. Therefore a defensive player can’t sack someone AND force a fumble. It’s one or the other…
by SternfluffsKobe on Nov 4, 2009 12:13 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
lower the rim to 9 feet
that way i can play. the nba can start a new league. the 6 foot and under AND under 60 years old league.
pick up a calf every day pretty soon you will be picking up a cow
Working the officials
should be allowed only by a captain (1) or co-captian (limit 2), just like in the NHL. This would decrease the number of technical fouls and actually promote professionalism.
How about..
K-Mart has to wear a muzzle lol?
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