Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
Damn.
I kind of hate that I love Mark Cuban.
Yes, I feel a little dirty too. But it was a helluva quote. He is 100% right!
Damn.
I kind of hate that I love Mark Cuban.
Damn.
I kind of hate that I love Mark Cuban.
I assume you realize that this is not being done to address any sort of problem fans have with the game whatsoever. It's nothing but a money grab.
Who is talking about adding time? The proposal the league is exploring is to subtract game time and replace it with commercials.Either way, there is a way to do this without adding time to the game.
According to the article, the 48-min format has 3 mandatory timeouts in the 2nd and 4th quarter. It does not mention ANY mandatory timeouts in the 1st or 3rd. Maybe the article is poorly written and there are a couple of mandatory timeouts in the 1st and 3rd. If so, I stand corrected. But I still see no sense in reducing the periods by 1 min each. Either leave it the way it is, or align the rules with that of FIBA (40 min games)....
I love your first five.Since we're talking about changing the rules, here's a few rule changes I'd like to see instituted:
-On out of bounds plays, allow players to grab the ball and initiative the in-bounds play without having to have the ref handle the ball, like they do in soccer. This will increase the tempo of the game and lead to more transition scoring.
-Eliminate the stupid foul where an offensive player gets to swing the ball into the outstretched arms of the defender, such as what Paul did to Exum the other night, and get the foul. This irritates me to no end. The offensive player actually initiates the contact but the foul is called on the defender. The defender has just as much right to that space of the offensive player does.
-Apply a strict time limit for free throw and disallow the tiresome routine of every damned player on the team having to go up to the shooter for a hand slap. When did this dumb tradition start, and dear God, can we please get rid of it?
-Stop calling touch fouls at the top of the key when the PG or other player is initiating the offense. If there is contact, but it doesn't at all alter the play, give refs the flexibility to invoke an advantage rule, meaning that if the defensive player doesn't really gain any advantage, then no foul is called.
-With all the TV timeouts, reduce the number of discretionary timeouts a team gets. In the last 2 minutes of a period, limit discretionary timeouts to 30 seconds.
-Eliminate hack a Shack types of fouls, that is, don't call intentional off the ball fouls. And for intentional fouls, award 3 to make 2 free throws to discourage intentional fouling (years ago, the NBA actually did have 3 to make 2 foul shots).
-Allow defenders the plane of space 90 degrees up from where they are standing and stop calling fouls when the offensive player actually jumps into this space and initiates contact with the defender.
Any others?
-Increase the number of fouls allowed until a team is in the bonus (maybe).
Who is talking about adding time? The proposal the league is exploring is to subtract game time and replace it with commercials.
Since we're talking about changing the rules, here's a few rule changes I'd like to see instituted:
-On out of bounds plays, allow players to grab the ball and initiative the in-bounds play without having to have the ref handle the ball, like they do in soccer. This will increase the tempo of the game and lead to more transition scoring.
-Eliminate the stupid foul where an offensive player gets to swing the ball into the outstretched arms of the defender, such as what Paul did to Exum the other night, and get the foul. This irritates me to no end. The offensive player actually initiates the contact but the foul is called on the defender. The defender has just as much right to that space of the offensive player does.
-Apply a strict time limit for free throw and disallow the tiresome routine of every damned player on the team having to go up to the shooter for a hand slap. When did this dumb tradition start, and dear God, can we please get rid of it?
-Stop calling touch fouls at the top of the key when the PG or other player is initiating the offense. If there is contact, but it doesn't at all alter the play, give refs the flexibility to invoke an advantage rule, meaning that if the defensive player doesn't really gain any advantage, then no foul is called.
-With all the TV timeouts, reduce the number of discretionary timeouts a team gets. In the last 2 minutes of a period, limit discretionary timeouts to 30 seconds.
-Eliminate hack a Shack types of fouls, that is, don't call intentional off the ball fouls. And for intentional fouls, award 3 to make 2 free throws to discourage intentional fouling (years ago, the NBA actually did have 3 to make 2 foul shots).
-Allow defenders the plane of space 90 degrees up from where they are standing and stop calling fouls when the offensive player actually jumps into this space and initiates contact with the defender.
Any others?
-Increase the number of fouls allowed until a team is in the bonus (maybe).
Since we're talking about changing the rules, here's a few rule changes I'd like to see instituted:
-On out of bounds plays, allow players to grab the ball and initiative the in-bounds play without having to have the ref handle the ball, like they do in soccer. This will increase the tempo of the game and lead to more transition scoring.
-Eliminate the stupid foul where an offensive player gets to swing the ball into the outstretched arms of the defender, such as what Paul did to Exum the other night, and get the foul. This irritates me to no end. The offensive player actually initiates the contact but the foul is called on the defender. The defender has just as much right to that space of the offensive player does.
-Apply a strict time limit for free throw and disallow the tiresome routine of every damned player on the team having to go up to the shooter for a hand slap. When did this dumb tradition start, and dear God, can we please get rid of it?
-Stop calling touch fouls at the top of the key when the PG or other player is initiating the offense. If there is contact, but it doesn't at all alter the play, give refs the flexibility to invoke an advantage rule, meaning that if the defensive player doesn't really gain any advantage, then no foul is called.
-With all the TV timeouts, reduce the number of discretionary timeouts a team gets. In the last 2 minutes of a period, limit discretionary timeouts to 30 seconds.
-Eliminate hack a Shack types of fouls, that is, don't call intentional off the ball fouls. And for intentional fouls, award 3 to make 2 free throws to discourage intentional fouling (years ago, the NBA actually did have 3 to make 2 foul shots).
-Allow defenders the plane of space 90 degrees up from where they are standing and stop calling fouls when the offensive player actually jumps into this space and initiates contact with the defender.
Any others?
-Increase the number of fouls allowed until a team is in the bonus (maybe).
Oh how I love DVR. I can't remember the last time I watched a commercial!
If they were really worried about the players health as they claim they could drop preseason games. That's 8 games.
82 might sound like a lot but it's really not. Take a physical job like a hod tender. I'd say 250 8 hour days.
Further evidence would be the workout and training that NBA players do. If they don't they get out of shape. Pretty hard to argue that the season is too long if you have to workout on your off time to keep from getting fat imo.
OK, but I didn't say that it was too hard on players, though I believe it might indeed help to increase the intensity of the games if they played a little bit less games. But what I meant was that 82 regular games make some games just so ordinary or irrelevant. It kinda decreases the weight of the games.