What are some things we can do to take away so much offensive advantage?

[Walk on Water]

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[MrFonzworth]

I also can barely finish game these days. I agree the refs need to do a better job on not calling flops fouls. The players also need to stop flopping for fouls as well. If we can get both parties to sign on then the league as a product will improve in quality overnight.

[jstern]

Another quality post by one of the best minds on ISH. Walks on water has a way of identifying complicated problems, and painting them in a way that even a moron can understand. A picture is worth a thousand words.

One wonders why you're not getting that many likes on Facebook. http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Ainosterhaspie]

Crack down on screens. The little hip throw at the last second and arms making a bigger obstacle to get around make things impossible for a defender, not to mention flat out moving screens. Require a screener's arms to be against his body or its an offensive foul. And if he slips a screen and bulldozes a defender out of the way as he's "rolling" to the basket, call that too.

Related to screens, a player chasing an offensive player around the screen should have a minimum one step to avoid the ball handler if he suddenly stops similar to how a defender can't get a charge for sliding in after the driver starts his upward motion. The defender shouldn't be punished for being close to his man.

Don't reward offensive players for diving into defenders. Most of the time this should be a no call, but there are plenty of times where the offensive player should be called, but the defender is instead. When an offensive player changes his angle of attack to create contact with the defender, that should not be a defensive foul. Don't go too far the other way and call fouls on the bumps to create separation. That should be part of normal physicality. Those pumpfakes to get a guy jumping followed by moving at the airborne dude and throwing your shooting motion into him should be noncalls.

Shooters should have a right jump and land vertically or away from a defender without getting undercut, but if they jump forward more than a foot and land on a defender, that should be a no call. I hate seeing a guy jump from behind the three point line and land on a defender "undercutting" him inside the three point line. That's rubbish.

*As an aside, hand checking is abundant in today's game if you're paying attention.

[superduper]

Making defense not illegal

[brooks_thompson]

Drop the three point line. The whole point of the game is to get a high percentage shot close to the basket. You tell me what the hell good is it being 7 feet tall and not even being able to dominate the game of basketball anymore. It’s got to be a hell of an inconvenience to be that tall and big, but there used to be an incentive to be great and make more money than everyone else. I wouldn’t be surprised if suicide among 7-footers is on the rise, though analytic basketball nerds would only thumb their noses at the stat, claiming small sample size.

[FKAri]

Hand checking. Too much dancing going on at the 3pt line.

Refereeing needs a major overhaul. Can we have additional refs watching on a monitor or something? Maybe define some of these archaic rules better? Maybe see how much of it can be automated (like out of bounds).

I'm OK with the death of post play. I don't want to see Andre Drummond turn into Moses Malone. I'd rather watch Harden dancing on the perimeter.

[brooks_thompson]

Hand checking. Too much dancing going on at the 3pt line.

Refereeing needs a major overhaul. Can we have additional refs watching on a monitor or something? Maybe define some of these archaic rules better? Maybe see how much of it can be automated (like out of bounds).

I'm OK with the death of post play. I don't want to see Andre Drummond turn into Moses Malone. I'd rather watch Harden dancing on the perimeter.

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[Trollsmasher]

offensive corner 3 seconds

you'd need like two more refs for these idiots to catch it tho:lol

[superduper]

offensive corner 3 seconds

you'd need like two more refs for these idiots to catch it tho:lol

Lmfao, that would be hilarious.