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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
the game would be called, "Who can blow the tightest meth smoke ring into Knight's nostrils while his mouth is filled with styrofome and covered in ductape. By the by, I just smoked a big fattie. I am so wasted right now. I burped up my Wendy's frostie and have to fish the dead hooker out of my jacuzzi. It is so cold outside. I wish Bob Knight would show up at my house with a tube of KY, a clamp, two chisels, and a box of rubbers, not to mention some depends undergarments and medicinal stirrups. Old men need lotsandlotso lovin care. I will take care of the errant body hair Bobarino. Just don't be such a stranger anymore.
I don't think that it is a penalty to the defense that the offense has to reset and scramble to get back into position with all of the lost time off of both the shot clock and the game clock, especially when those seconds are huge. If anything, it is a direct benefit to the defense in the game and helps to slow down this fast-break oriented basketball and takes to the fundamentals. The good teams are the ones who are talented enough to hold their ground and force a steal by being aggressive playing defense and knocking the ball into the backcourt, giving their team the ability to go on the break and get easier points. Making the game stop takes away the momentum from the defense and allows the offense, who was not protecting the ball or making crisp passes like they should have been, turn around and set their feet on DEFENSE?! The break in play alone takes the immediate advantage of the continuous play rule now in order and inherently takes away the momentum that could have been gained had they the ability to chase the ball. All I'm saying is that with the non backcourt violation rule in play now can reward good solid hustle on the basketball court and who doesn't love hustle, especially in college basketball?
Any thoughts? Should a team be allowed to opt-out of shooting free throws in a bonus situation, if they'd prefer the chance to inbound?
The NCAA tried that as an experimental rule in the Maui season-opening tournament some years ago.
The fouled team had the choice of shooting free-throws, or inbounding the ball again. What that led to was the fouling team fouling repeatedly (10+ times) until the inbounding team finally turned the ball over. Inbounds plays are hard. Giving the defensive team multiple shots at them (relatively) penalty free hurts them team that rule tries to help.
Maybe make the double-bonus two shots plus a third if the first two are made? I don't like watching free throws either, but it would limit the "foul the other team to limit them to two points" strategy.
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