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Basketball is the only sport that encourages fouling

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Avert your eyes Jake, this isn't pretty.

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jlb1705 said:
Basketball is a sport that punishes lousy free throw shooting.

Exhibit A: NC State.
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It rewards teams for committing fouls. The one-and-one is a joke. The 7th foul should be 2 shots. The 10th foul should be 2 shots and possession. Being able to engineer a comeback by intentionally violating the rules should be much more difficult. The fact that all teams do it shows it's all too easy.
 
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It's that time of year again. I remember when the Seahawks were intentionally committing penalties to engineer a comeback versus Green Bay, Oregon kept jumping off sides to stop the clock and improve their chances versus the Buckeyes, and soccer teams always draw cards to help their chances. No?

Nope, only basketball.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Ah, but what about the age-old strategy of taking repeated false starts penalties from inside your own five-yard line? At some point, it's only like a .5" penalty and there's no real harm.
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Probably the best way to ice a game if you've managed to score more points via field goals than the other team's touchdowns.

Pfft... just kidding... like that's even possible.
 
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Make 2 changes. After 10 fouls, give the team the option to take the ball out of bounds or shoot foul shots. Two, if its an intentional foul, call it an intentional foul. If the defender dives at the offensive players feet or grabs his waist, that is not a basketball play on the ball. The rule already exists, just call it.
 
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wigmon said:
Make 2 changes. After 10 fouls, give the team the option to take the ball out of bounds or shoot foul shots. Two, if its an intentional foul, call it an intentional foul. If the defender dives at the offensive players feet or grabs his waist, that is not a basketball play on the ball. The rule already exists, just call it.
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any basket made that goes in off an opponents head in the last 2 minutes of a half is worth 5 points
-George Carlin (paraphrased)

it won't do anything about fouling but it would be a fun rule
 
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The fouling strategy that I dislike when watching a game on TV is when a team up 3 fouls the team with the ball late in the game, taking its chances that the team that's behind can't execute the make the first free throw-miss the second free throw-score the putback trifecta. Not saying it isn't a smart strategy for the team in the lead, but it makes the end of a game so much less fun to watch, as opposed to seeing if the team that's losing can get a guy open and hit the game-tying three.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
any basket made that goes in off an opponents head in the last 2 minutes of a half is worth 5 points
-George Carlin (paraphrased)

it won't do anything about fouling but it would be a fun rule
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Im talking about modifying and enforcing a rule that already exists, not coming up with some clown rule. Fouling is part of basketball whether the first minute or last. A rule to discourage intentional fouling is in place, but officials refuse to enforce it in the last minute of the game. Enforcing that rule would take care of 90% of the problem. The other modification would help speed up the game which is your chief complaint (not really mine). If the existing rule were enforced, I'd consider the modification of having the option to take the ball out of bounds mostly unnecessary, but one I would like to see. The offense should have the option of being able to keep the ball.
 
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wigmon said:
Im talking about modifying and enforcing a rule that already exists, not coming up with some clown rule. Fouling is part of basketball whether the first minute or last. A rule to discourage intentional fouling is in place, but officials refuse to enforce it in the last minute of the game. Enforcing that rule would take care of 90% of the problem. The other modification would help speed up the game which is your chief complaint (not really mine). If the existing rule were enforced, I'd consider the modification of having the option to take the ball out of bounds mostly unnecessary, but one I would like to see. The offense should have the option of being able to keep the ball.
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and obviously I was being as serious as a heart attack





or not
 
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Of course, there are already rules for flagrant fouls - aka, intentional fouls. There's nothing in the rules that say it has to have the potential to cause injury. The player has to be making an attempt to play the ball, otherwise he's intentionally fouling. The fact is everyone in the building knows these late fouls are being committed intentionally with no real concern for the ball, but they're never called flagrant. Simply enforcing that rule would mitigate the 20 minutes of nonsense that take place the final 2 minutes of too many games, because the penalty is two shots AND possession.
 
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