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SROT: NBA Improvements - Don't Expect Players to Have to Disappear to Avoid a Foul.
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A very rare "Sports Rant of Truth." I am a sports fan, but usually think these are not the topics to cover here. But why not as its own category.
Two rule changes that could maybe not "save" the NBA, but at least make it less frustrating to watch, as the league with EASILY the worst officiating of any sports league. (I watch the NBA, and I'm glued to the playoffs annually, so this is not just hate, but in hopes for improvement).
SPOILER: Both are based on common sense and merely require the league to longer make players have to be able to DE-MATERIALIZE in order to avoid having a foul called on them.
1. The ridiculous situation where the ball is being dribbled in one spot, with the defender settled in front of the offensive player, and the offensive player gets to drive right into the defender to draw a foul.
2. The ridiculous situation where an offensive player already has momentum toward the basket on an open path, but a defender can slide perpendicular into their path at the last moment, when it is physically impossible for the offensive player to avoid him, and yet the defender gets the call in this situation.
Both require the offending players to have the power to dematerialize themselves to avoid the foul. Also known as they require an impossibility, which means the calls are arbitrary and therefore inherently unfair.
And they're specifically contradictory to each other: One says an offensive player WITH momentum is supposed to somehow avoid a last-moment slide into his path, and the other says an offensive player can from a dead stop basically dive directly into the stationary defender.
Both rules, like flopping, and falling upon landing for every three point attempt where someone touches you at all, are not inducing regular basketball play having to do with either trying to score or trying to keep the defender from scoring, but are instead inducing disingenuous activity.
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Thanks for listening! Please feel free to email me at [email protected] with requests for appearances, thoughts, feedback, questions, observations, or show ideas! Please like my episodes and follow my show if that is what feels right to you!
Two rule changes that could maybe not "save" the NBA, but at least make it less frustrating to watch, as the league with EASILY the worst officiating of any sports league. (I watch the NBA, and I'm glued to the playoffs annually, so this is not just hate, but in hopes for improvement).
SPOILER: Both are based on common sense and merely require the league to longer make players have to be able to DE-MATERIALIZE in order to avoid having a foul called on them.
1. The ridiculous situation where the ball is being dribbled in one spot, with the defender settled in front of the offensive player, and the offensive player gets to drive right into the defender to draw a foul.
2. The ridiculous situation where an offensive player already has momentum toward the basket on an open path, but a defender can slide perpendicular into their path at the last moment, when it is physically impossible for the offensive player to avoid him, and yet the defender gets the call in this situation.
Both require the offending players to have the power to dematerialize themselves to avoid the foul. Also known as they require an impossibility, which means the calls are arbitrary and therefore inherently unfair.
And they're specifically contradictory to each other: One says an offensive player WITH momentum is supposed to somehow avoid a last-moment slide into his path, and the other says an offensive player can from a dead stop basically dive directly into the stationary defender.
Both rules, like flopping, and falling upon landing for every three point attempt where someone touches you at all, are not inducing regular basketball play having to do with either trying to score or trying to keep the defender from scoring, but are instead inducing disingenuous activity.
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Thanks for listening! Please feel free to email me at [email protected] with requests for appearances, thoughts, feedback, questions, observations, or show ideas! Please like my episodes and follow my show if that is what feels right to you!
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