Hoops

New NBL rules for 2010/11 season

Just responding to Peter's point about the no-charge circle giving offensive players the advantage. If the rule is the same as the NBA, the no charge rule does not apply if both players are competing directly under the basket for a put back.

This modification ensures the circle only does what it is intended to do: stop players skying for dunks getting under cut and thereby encouraging athletic plays around the basket.

I think the rule works well in the NBA and so long as our refs are able to call it properly, it should open up things up for athletic slashers, which can only be good for on court action.

I believe it would be even better if they also adopted the NBA's limited zone rule as well, which allows a player to guard an area unless they are inside the key, where they can only stand for 3 secs unless they are guarding someone. This allows for an element of zone and defensive help, without clogging the keyway too much and making it really hard to score on the drive.

There will have to be a lot of extra training for 3 point shooters to adjust to the extra half metre. I hope it doesn't affect the number of shots taken and made because the 3 point shots also add to the excitement of the game. I don't know why FIBA needed to change that because as it is, there is not an automatic ability to make the 3 point shot so why make it even more difficult and affecting the excitement of the game?

How can such a simple thread on a completely different topic turn into yet another Sturt bash?

Sturt have been recruiting junior players from other clubs for over 40 years. How many people know that David and Phil Smyth first played juniors for South Adelaide before transferring to Sturt in their second year of under 14s?

Anonymous 275497, you say since Liam appeared things got better. I would not take a thing away from what PM has done at sturt with his development of juniors. Yes other clubs are a bit jealous, of Mescke though not Liam.

Secret Sabre,
The best thing about Sturt posters is that you don't need much meat on the hook to reel in 200 lb bite.

I wouldn't worry too much about comments....

"An adjustment to what used to be known as the Young Australian Player rule will see all teams required to have one Australian or New Zealand player under the age of 24 as one of their 10 contracted players (for the 2010/11 season they must have been born after 1 April 1987"

Look out for the likes of Pledger, Webster and Abercrombie to be looked at by a number of NBL clubs

Agree with the Spin Move, Travel call. I noticed that any non-imports were nailed with the call regularly.

Remember Homicide doing about 10-11 spin moves through the course of the last Crocs-Sixers game and only got pinged on 1 of them. Calling a travel on a move like that takes the flair out of the modern game. Might as well remove dunking.

Agree with Paul about the reffing too. If only the quality level was present in the NBL. I've never seen such inconsistant reffing.

Skud, real defense died in the early 90's. The likes of Charles Barkley, Kevin McHale, David Robinson and Patrick Ewing have all said that numerous times.

Nowadays anyone of any size can post up and there's nothing players can do without being called on a hack attempt. If "Post Bangin'" hadn't died off, guys like Kobe and Dwayne Wade wouldn't set foot in the low post otherwise they'd be laid out on a defensive play every time.

Rules have changed to suit the size of the players. Do like the "no charge" circle. I've been begging for that to come to the NBL for years now.