FIBA World Supposedly Changed To NBA Foul Rules...

[Euroleague]

I just heard that FIBA World has supposedly changed it's foul rules from the current FIBA rules for fouling, to NBA rules for fouling...


This is an enormous change to FIBA rules, because under the FIBA fouling rules --->


Defensive players have the right to their own bubble of space around their area of the court that they are occupying (no James Harden and Dwyane Wade style free throws being allowed),

Defensive fouls are only called at the personal discretion and whim of the refs (which in the last 10 years or so, has allowed FIBA refs to decide dozens of huge games on their own, without any threat of punishment), and,

where impeding or changing the direction of the offensive movement of an offensive player, by physically touching them on the perimeter, does not have to be called a defensive foul, and is again at the ref's discretion (which is why Steph Curry is just an 8-12 points a game type of scorer in FIBA).


Supposedly, FIBA has officially changed these rules, to NBA foul rules, where -->


No defensive player has the right to his own bubble of space around the area of the court that he occupies (meaning Dwyane Wade and James Harden style free throws being allowed, where they were not before),

Defensive fouls no longer allowed to be called at the personal discretion and whim of refs, but being absolutely a must call, if a defensive foul occurs (perhaps the complete doom and destruction of national basketball teams like USA, Spain, and Lithuania, that get helped by the refs in almost every game they play), and,

where impeding or changing the direction of the offensive movement of an offensive player, by physically touching them on the perimeter, HAS to be called a defensive foul (players like Steph Curry and prime Steve Nash suddenly are "magically" transformed into supermen).


I am guessing that this is being done primarily for 3 reasons - in order to make the rules of the NBA and FIBA more uniform with each other, to stop national teams like Spain, USA, and Lithuania, from always getting help from the refs, and thus skewing international tournament results over and over, and as a part of the forming of the new version of the Euroleague, which is being created so that it can soon join together with the NBA, for the NBA Europe Division that the NBA wants.

[Lebron23]

NBA rules > FIBA Rules

[Milbuck]

Giannis is better than Spanoulis ever was.