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I've always felt basketball is the worst with this of the major sports. It is a standard strategy to foul at the end of games when losing (or even if winning b

I've always felt basketball is the worst with this of the major sports. It is a standard strategy to foul at the end of games when losing (or even if winning by 3 in the final seconds). The punishment for fouling is to allow the fouled player to get free throws, but free throws are a skill and not all players are skilled at it. So if you can foul the right person you can often change the probability of the game. A simple rule change could end this. For example, a foul in the last two minutes is a free throw and the ball.

kristjansson 3y ago
Late game basketball fouls are good meta though. The strategic trade - a great chance at scoring, in exchange for the time the offense would have taken - is reasonable, and avoids the wasted last two-three minutes of American football. A team that’s down, but in contact isn’t totally dominated by the clock, but has the length of the game isn’t totally unbounded like baseball or tennis