Im Still Ballin
09-13-2023, 11:38 PM
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https://groups.google.com/g/net.sport.hoops/c/3oAAWNvpcf8
The problems with the NBA can be summarized as follows:
1. They don't play basketball.
So much pushing, holding, fouling is allowed that any fouls called are arbitrary. Consequently fouls are called based more on reputation than on the sequence of events. The reasons for this is that the league doesn't want the games to become a simple test of free throw shooting, but if ALL the fouls were called consistently, I believe that the greatest basketball players in the world would adjust.
2. In crunch time ( the last few seconds of a game ) ANYTHING goes.
The officials are so afraid of deciding a game at the free throw line that anything short of decapitation is "good defense" unless the shooter makes the shot. Consequently the fouling is completely out of hand in the final seconds of a game. This frame of mind becomes the standard for playoff games. The reason for this are the same as for problem one above. Again I think that if the college approach were taken, where games can easily be lost at the line, the NBA players would respond with the kind of tight but clear defense close college games end with.
3 It's FIXXED!?!?
When playoff time rolls around watch with special attention the games worked by the head of the NBA officials, ole D.G. His calls are most creative and the ratio of fouls he hands out between teams, make it hard to believe he's calling them as he sees them.
https://groups.google.com/g/net.sport.hoops/c/3oAAWNvpcf8
The problems with the NBA can be summarized as follows:
1. They don't play basketball.
So much pushing, holding, fouling is allowed that any fouls called are arbitrary. Consequently fouls are called based more on reputation than on the sequence of events. The reasons for this is that the league doesn't want the games to become a simple test of free throw shooting, but if ALL the fouls were called consistently, I believe that the greatest basketball players in the world would adjust.
2. In crunch time ( the last few seconds of a game ) ANYTHING goes.
The officials are so afraid of deciding a game at the free throw line that anything short of decapitation is "good defense" unless the shooter makes the shot. Consequently the fouling is completely out of hand in the final seconds of a game. This frame of mind becomes the standard for playoff games. The reason for this are the same as for problem one above. Again I think that if the college approach were taken, where games can easily be lost at the line, the NBA players would respond with the kind of tight but clear defense close college games end with.
3 It's FIXXED!?!?
When playoff time rolls around watch with special attention the games worked by the head of the NBA officials, ole D.G. His calls are most creative and the ratio of fouls he hands out between teams, make it hard to believe he's calling them as he sees them.