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Basketball is the only sport that encourages fouling

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OSU_Buckguy said:
finally, one way to counter games being drawn out to more than 2 hours is to radically change the end of games. foul-fests do more to create long games than anything else. in football, coaches have the prerogative to reject an opponent's penalty. basketball coaches should have the same right. in the final two minutes of a basketball game, coaches should have the prerogative to take the ball out-of-bounds instead of shooting free throws. this change would greatly disincentivize foul-a-thons that pretty much every close game suffers.
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amen to the above but I do not even know if the NCAA Rules Committee has ever even talked about giving the coaches the option of taking the ball out of bounds or shooting the free throws in the last couple minutes and I have no idea why. They cannot really think that fans enjoy it.
 
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Jake said:
Have you ever seen a football, hockey, soccer, etc., game where teams intentionally commit violations late in the game, when trailing and trying come back? Obviously, not. Basketball, on the other hand, does it all the time.

This could be easily fixed.

Get rid of the 1-1 at 7 fouls. One-and-one should've disappeared when the three point shot arrived. The 7th foul is 2 shots. As for the double bonus at 10+ fouls, it would be 2 shots AND possession. This way, the final minute foul fest becomes a detriment, not a betterment, to the losing team. You just play basketball.
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Yeah, he's going to complain about this shit again. It must be basketball season.

Not only do you get the endless fouls, but the hoarding of time outs to spend them all in the last 2 minutes. They get as many time outs now as they did before there were four free ones each half for TV - eight free time outs. No wonder they have so many left at the end of the game.

Oh, and now we get the added bonus of every time there's stoppage in the last 120 seconds we get a 3 minute break to watch a couple of old guys in striped shirts staring at a monitor, determining whether to put two-tenths of a second on the clock. Scintillating stuff! Get rid of it.

It's tedious and boring. A great back-and-forth game reduced to standing around for 20 minutes to tick 90 seconds off the clock. That's not playing basketball.
 
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It just seems like flagrant fouls (especially elbows to the head) are happening more frequent in college basketball. Here's a couple recent examples:

USC's Chevez Goodwin elbows Colorado's McKinley Wright in head, stays in game

USC big man Chevez Goodwin elbowed Colorado guard McKinley Wright in the head during the teams' Pac-12 Tournament semifinal Friday night. Officials called Goodwin for a technical foul but allowed him to remain in the game.

The incident occurred with 13:50 remaining in the first half. Goodwin swung his elbows while holding the ball after a whistle and made hard contact with Wright, sending the Buffaloes' top scorer to the floor.

Entire article: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nca...in-head-not-ejected/nd7wx28c2cqb1ployvqpm43on

Video: Florida Player Ejected After Throwing Vicious Elbow



Entire article: https://thespun.com/sec/florida/video-florida-player-ejected-after-throwing-vicious-elbow

Just sayin': I'll go on record as saying the NCAA should crack down on the flagrant "elbows to the head" with much stiffer penalties. Maybe an additional game or 2 suspension should be mandatory, etc. IMHO, this is just as serious as "targeting" is in football.
 
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Dunno, but once upon a time, 'Hack-a-Shaq' was a for real strategy. When Shaq got the ball underneath, his dunk percentage was pretty near 100%. However, if one hung on his arm, his FT percentage was around 50%, ergo, his team would get held to one point on that possession.

Plus, there's a saying....May your life last as long (relatively) as the last two minutes of an NBA game...
 
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