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Should the NBA Change Foul Limit Rules?

Handlogten's Heros said:
The only really cringy fouls I thought were the one with Rudy on Ja that was an obvious challenge candidate and Quin preferred to thumb his ******* rather than challenge it. The other foul was the one where JJJ just traveled and fell to the ground and it was called a foul. I at least understood that one because it may have looked like he was pushed.
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The fifth foul on Brooks (which didn't have that much impact, he kept playing IIRC and he didn't foul out) was really ticky-tack, they should've let that go IMO. I can't believe they challenged his assault on Joe, though. That was the most obvious foul of them all.
 
The NBA already has this(ish) rule if you are down to 5 healthy players. I believe there's a T for each foul on a player who would otherwise foul out.

Don't know how it is in FIBA now, and how it is in non-NBA US ball, but back in my days playing in Norway, you lost the game if you had only one remaining player, but you could foul out guys so you were shorthanded (I remember playing 2 on 5 for several minutes).
 
TheGoldStandard said:
I think that is the solution. Send a memo that the league will be watching tape, and players that consistently flop or offensive players that cause unnatural offensive contact will be watched, and the benefit of the doubt will start going to the defender for those players.

I also think as part of a challenge, if it is determined that a player clearly flopped which led the officials to an incorrect call, it should be two shots and the ball for the defending team and a personal foul for the offender. This would make the challenge (which is neutered for many situations due to leading to a jump ball) more effective.
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The entire reason the league abandoned the crack-down on flopping was because it revealed how often the biggest stars use it to get calls and they realized they would more often than not be punishing a star player. Cannot mess with the bread and butter so they basically just abandoned that movement. Imagine how LeBron would be affected if they actually went after the floppers. No way the league is suspending him for multiple games, they will take too big a hit to the bottom line.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
Review each game and hold refs accountable. Bonus for well called games, fines and eventual dismissal for poorly called ones.
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Do they not do this already? Dems like a pretty obvious thing to do
 
I like the idea of making a player sit after 6.

While we’re talking about changing stuff, I wished they went to the college rule of 1 and 1 free throws and then the double bonus for 10+ fouls. And the jump ball rule in the NBA is stupid. The amount of bad heaves by the officials, players “stealing” the jump, players winning the jump only to see their teammates fail to collect the ball, is just overwhelming. I wished they’d just use the possession arrow like they do in high school and college. It makes the game far more interesting than seeing Gobert out reaching some short guy only to see the other team get the ball because our guys failed to grab it.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
Review each game and hold refs accountable. Bonus for well called games, fines and eventual dismissal for poorly called ones.
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A well-honed conspiracy theorist would point out that the more skilled the official, the more capable they are of influencing a game with selective calls at selective times. The bozo refs will get weeded out of the league because they don’t have the skill needed to influence games without being obvious cheats. I mean, if you are inclined to believe refs are intentionally slanting games ala Tim Donaghy.
 
Whomever gets fouled on the 7th, and all subsequent fouls, gets to sleep with the fouler's wife/girlfriend/sister/mom. Works for the WNBA, too. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
 
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