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This is why I mostly stopped watching the NBA and basketball in general. The foul-calling situation is ridiculous. Many offensive fouls get called as defensive
by mnm1 8y ago
This is why I mostly stopped watching the NBA and basketball in general. The foul-calling situation is ridiculous. Many offensive fouls get called as defensive fouls and even good calls slow down the game significantly, more than it's already slowed by the million timeouts in the game. A simple solution would be to lower the amount of fouls a player is allowed to commit before they are sent off like the card system in soccer. Or put players in a penalty box like in hockey for a few mins after every foul and make the team play one down. Or just simply call offensive fouls when the offensive player obviously just runs into the defensive player instead of the other way around. There are many possibilities, but I don't see the NBA exploring any of them and they are no stranger to rule changes. Maybe the NBA wants the games fixed, who knows? Regardless, they have the power to fix this and do not. Hard to argue they are acting in good conscience.
- tabtab 8y agoSo there would be a stretch where it were 4 versus 5 players? Oh my! The idea of minimizing free-throws seems worth exploring, though. Maybe store them up so they are all done at the end of a quarter. One can then go get a sandwich if they don't want to watch that.