Friday, April 24, 2015

Another off-season, the same gripes

We will hear it all summer.  "Slow is BAD." "Up tempo is entertaining." "The rules need to be changed to make things tougher for defenses." And, they likely will change the rules, because fast is good, slow is bad. It doesn't matter how many turnovers there are, how many bad passes, how many ill-advised shots taken. Fast is good.

So, just quit pretending and change the rules all the way. Change to a 15-second clock. Give the players time to get the ball across the half-court, and then shoot it! Take "shot selection" totally out of the vocabulary.  Make it a mandatory foul if the defensive player touches the offensive player AT ALL. After all, we are not talking about making basketball better here, but about making it more exciting, and fast is exciting, so fast must be good. Go ahead. That would "fix" basketball the way these guys think, because slow is bad.

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