Vintage tonightPaul Pierce is da truth
Thibs spent that final timeout arguing with the refs about the time on the clock and then they give up a backdoor cut with 1.3 left.I thought the 4th quarter of Bucks-Bulls was really entertaining.
For all of his defensive prowess, Thibs is not a great offensive coach. I expect Chicago to close out the series in game 5, but I like what they are building in Milwaukee.
Sixers targeting Deanglo Russell out of Ohio State. @goblue96
Threw an punch on a box out to the face to Crowder who was behind him. Auto ejection.What he do?
Next game he'll probably go 1-6 with 5 turnoversPels eliminated and Austin Rivers has the game of his life.
Ayyy lmao.Pels eliminated and Austin Rivers has the game of his life.
Just saving his energy for Dallas. Don't wanna give them damaged goodsWhat a horrific game by Aldridge so far. He can't make anything and is missing badly on all his shots.
Seeing a lot of talk about banning the Hack-a-Shaq strategy for next season. We should apply this to other sports.
If a guy can't hit curveballs, you shouldn't be allowed to throw him any breaking pitches.
If a defense is bad against the run, the other team should have to throw it on every down.
Can anybody explain the logic as to why it changes in the last 2 minutes? It can't be both ways. Either it is sound defensive strategy, and should be able to be employed anytime, or it is clearly not a basketball play to hug someone who doesn't have the ball or making a play on it.
All they have to do is make the rules consistent for the entirety of the game. If they make it one shot and the ball, then this garbage goes away.
-YTC
Wilt Chamberlain was such a great player and dominant force that he would be certain to be on the floor in late-game situations if the score was close. However, he was such a poor free throw shooter (51%) that if the opposition needed to employ intentional fouling late in the game, Chamberlain would always be that team's target. Just as the opposition was eager to send Chamberlain to the free throw line because of his ineptitude there, Chamberlain himself was reluctant to go for that same reason. This led to the spectacle of virtually an entire other game being held away from the ball and almost completely outside of the basketball game being played, as Chamberlain essentially played ade facto game of tag with defenders, attempting to run from and dodge them as they chased him trying to foul him.
The NBA decided to address this undesirable situation by instituting a new rule regarding off-the-ball fouls—that is, committing a personal foul against an offensive player who neither has the ball nor is making an effort to obtain it. The new rule stated that if the defensive team commits an off-the-ball foul within the last two minutes of the game, the offensive team would be allowed to keep possession of the ball after the awarding of either one or two free throws. Since the entire reason for employing intentional fouling as a strategy was to quickly terminate the offensive team's possession, this new rule, when in effect, forced the team using intentional fouling to foul only the offensive player who had the ball. This brought an end to the need for Chamberlain (or any other poor free throw shooter) to play hide and seek with opposing defenders in intentional fouling situations. The current version of the rule carries an even more punitive penalty for a violation--not only does the victimized team maintain possession but it is permitted to select any player they want to shoot the awarded free throw, obviously choosing the most proficient free throw shooter on their squad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-a-Shaq#Wilt_Chamberlain_and_the_off-the-ball_foul_rule
So, the league decided that the intentional fouling strategy of Wilt Chamberlain was an "undesirable situation" and created a rule to stop it.
If it is an "undesirable situation" in the last 2 minutes, wouldn't it be undesirable in the other 46 minutes of a game?
-YTC
You couldn't do it for 46 minutes and field a full team. For starters, the first few wouldn't even do anything other than give them the ball back out of bounds. By the time you reached the bonus it would be 11:30 left in the quarter and someone would have almost fouled out.
Seeing a lot of talk about banning the Hack-a-Shaq strategy for next season. We should apply this to other sports.
If a guy can't hit curveballs, you shouldn't be allowed to throw him any breaking pitches.
If a defense is bad against the run, the other team should have to throw it on every down.
Seeing a lot of talk about banning the Hack-a-Shaq strategy for next season. We should apply this to other sports.
If a guy can't hit curveballs, you shouldn't be allowed to throw him any breaking pitches.
If a defense is bad against the run, the other team should have to throw it on every down.
This is my view as well. It seems dumb to come up with rules that serve no purpose but to protect certain players who suck at part of the game.
And I especially don't like suggestions that punish the OTHER team for how much the player sucks. How about a rule that players who shoot under 60% from the line have to sit the last 2 minutes then? Why should the other team suffer because Shaq or Dwight or whomever can't shoot?
If they are going to insist on punishing the defense, then I think allowing the offensive team to put anyone they want at the line is enough of a solution, there's no reason to give them possession beyond that.