Hand Checking Was Removed To Help Jordan During The Time He Played

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Clarification added to prohibit hand-checking through

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They weren't enforced until recently (post-2000). It's common basketball knowledge.

[QUOTE=Ne 1]Published: March 28, 1993[/QUOTE]

[COLOR="Red"]published April 2009[/COLOR]

Since 1990, the NBA has instituted a series of rules changes to increase the offensive player's flow and make physical play costly. First came increased penalties for flagrant fouls (1990) and fighting (1993), the implementation of the "five points" rule that called for automatic suspensions of players who amassed a certain number of flagrants (1993). Hand checking was eliminated in 1994. Using the forearm to defend players facing the basket went away in 1997.

[B]In 1999, the league eliminated contact by a defender with his hands and forearms both in the backcourt and frontcourt[/B], except on offensive players who caught the ball below the free throw line extended.[B] Defenses were also prohibited from "re-routing" players off the ball.[/B] This freed up perimeter players who used screens to get open. [B]Nor were defenders able any more to grab or impede offensive players setting screens[/B]. In 2001, the [B]defensive three-second rule eliminated defenders camping out in the lane away from their offensive man to help[/B].

[COLOR="Red"]From 05/13/2012[/COLOR]

The most significant change in recent years are frequently referred to as the "hand-check rules," but they are not rule changes at all. Instead, based on the advice of a special 2001 committee led by then-Suns owner Jerry Colangelo, the league ended the boring, grind-it-out defensive style of the [B]Pat Riley Knicks by instructing referees to more tightly enforce existing rules against impeding the progress of offensive players[/B], [B]especially with hand-checking[/B]. [B]Since then, any contact that affects an offensive player's speed, rhythm, balance or quickness is a foul[/B] -- a change that has goosed up the league's offensive numbers; inspiring some of the greatest offenses in NBA history (including this year's Spurs and the Phoenix Suns of a few years ago); and [B]emboldening rim-attacking players like Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo, Dwyane Wade and Russell Westbrook. [/B]


[COLOR="Red"]From article 10/25/12[/COLOR]

Hands off (literally):[B] During the late 1980s and early ’90s, the NBA was at risk of descending into rugby on hardwood. Bruising defenses led by the likes of Bill Laimbeer in Detroit and Anthony Mason in New York were pushing and shoving their way into the playoffs.[/B] The competition was intense, but games were low-scoring and ugly. Stern pushed back with rule changes meant up to free up offense. In 1994, he outlawed hand checking and in 1997 he limited the use of forearms. [B]These changes opened the game and made it possible for the likes of Steve Nash to flourish in an uptempo game[/B].

Ricky Rubio early 2012:

It’s basketball, so in the end of the day, it’s the same thing. But, over here, maybe, you can run more. [B]There are more spaces because there is a defensive 3 second zone. And it’s easy to play here, because of all the spaces you have, and they can’t be more than 3 seconds in the zone. So that it looks easier going to the rim.[/B]

Found some evidence on how MJ hand checking benefits him. He did it a lot.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgUqb5hWAVY[/url]

[QUOTE=Poetry]They weren't enforced until recently (post-2000). It's common basketball knowledge.[/QUOTE]
u mean propaganda?

it's fascinating how deep the MJ mythologization is, people are so indoctrinated that they repeat the gospel of MJ without any regards to the facts.

[QUOTE=Euroleague]Complete bullshit. Hand checking was penalized during the time Jordan was playing in the league.[/QUOTE]

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You just got ****!ng owned. Sit your bitch ass down, EuroFail.

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You just got ****!ng owned. Sit your bitch ass down, EuroFail.

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WTF is wrong with these morons? Hand checking was a FOUL when Jordan played. It's a fact. Some stupid blog post from a retarded ESPN writer won't change that.

[QUOTE=Euroleague]WTF is wrong these morons? Hand checking was a FOUL when Jordan played. It's a fact. Some stupid blog post from a retarded ESPN writer won't change that.[/QUOTE]
Not for his whole career. Hand checking and the arm bar were perfectly legal for most of his career. You waste a lot of your time trying to prove stupid points.


Get a life chump.

[QUOTE=Go Getter]Not for his whole career. Hand checking and the arm bar were perfectly legal for most of his career. You waste a lot of your time trying to prove stupid points.


Get a life chump.[/QUOTE]

**** off. It was a foul during his championship prime.

1994-1995:

Hand-checking eliminated from the end line in the backcourt to the opposite foul line.

Don't forget about Stern moving the 3pt line closer. Jordan's career 3pt shooting was mid 20's before they shortened the line. In his first full season back with the line shorter he shot 44%. The following season 37%. Then they moved it back to it's original spot before the 97-98 season and he shot 24%

Same with Pippen. Two of his 3pt shooting years was those 2yrs and then dipped when they moved it back.

And Stern made the refs call a lot more palming violations to hinder Iverson's career, because before Iverson was drafted, they used to let players like Tim Hardaway, and Damon Stodemire get away with palming violations constantly.

It was Stern's method to prop up ballhogging chucking SGs because they sell the most number of shoes.

Iverson would be most ferocious scoring machine if he plays his whole career with no hand checking rule! #2 SG ever

thinking of someone who's under 6 feet, and with fg% over 45 and scoring 35 points every season during his prime!


Kobe, Lebron, KD and Wade got the best of it from no hand checking rule!