Hoops

Does the NBL need to Change Rules?

Oh and what kind of a mindless fuck are you, not even being able to differentiate between 'your' and 'you're'. I don't rate you at all.

#385105 My mistake, Hawks vs Crocs game. Don't feel too bad that your beloved 36ers lost and I profited from it yesterday.

How about actually posting under a username in future instead of hiding under anonymous?

No need to change the rules - unless it's the one that supposedly gives officials the right to ignore what is in the rest of the book, which turns them into rule makers rather than rule arbiters and has the effect of having them freeze up trying to decide what to call and what not to.

The rules as written are designed to let skills show out and provide equity between offence and defence. There are defensive skills too, but one would never guess that watching players who have substituted lazy grabbing and holding for footwork and positioning, which is hard work.

Of course, that [holding etc] is encouraged when referees let players with the ball travel to get around a player who has positioned him or her self correctly.

Not even in terms of interpretation, but just a flat out rule - bring back the timeout on the floor. For some reason, the refs let the Wildcats call a timeout last weekend against the Tigers when one of the Tigers guys was pressuring for a held ball. The lack of timeout on the floor can ruin a late-game situation (i.e. in the Cairns game yesterday). It ruins an entertainment aspect of games as well, and it's an entertainment industry - that's what the NBL is trying to put themselves across as, right?

There was a relevant comment in another thread which went along the lines of there being too much umpiring, which took away the fun of going to the game.

While I hate the possession arrow, I don't want to see any other rule changes. What I want to see, though, is players trying harder to play within the rules.

Basketball is supposed to be a non-contact game. When I see all the hand-checking and fighting for position at the low-post, it's obvious that the players aren't trying to play within the spirit and rules of the game.

It's just the style in Australia. Although i'd love to see the possession arrow gone, and refs to relax on the spin moves. It's rare you can perform a spin move in the NBL without being called for a travel, 80-90% of the time if you watch the play in slow motion, it's not even a travel!