Some rule changes I would like to see from the NBA in the offseason

I agree with this post.

Also “superstar” calls are irritating. Anyone else see the discrepancy every time Phil Jackson complains?

I think they should be able to jump straight up OR toward the basket. They should NOT be able to jump sideways like Wafer’s crazy ass did.

A.I. , Chauncy and most points in the league are guilty of one thing, playing to get fouled and not to play basketball. This has been increasingly frustrating for me over the last several years, as an NBA fan of over fourty years, this decline in the quality of basketball hurts the game. Who wants to watch a free throw shooting contest? The reason this rule will not get adopted is the difficultly in knowing what intent is. The NBA should at minimum give the referee’s a rule that states something like . . . “If an offensive player with the ball incourages contact with a defensive player for the sole purpose of a foul and without the intent or natural act of shooting or passing the ball, the foul shall be called on the offensive player”. This would at least give the referee’s a tool they can use for the most obvious situations, like ducking your head and driving towards the basket, or most recently Lebron’s drive towards the basket and sprawling himself on the floor, that didn’t deserve an emmy let alone an oscar! I don’t see this going away anytime soon, it is ingrained into the mentality of all the guards in the league, it has unfortunatly become part of the game :(

Flopping is the worst thing to happen to the NBA. It should be a delay of game on the flopper.

I agree with all the proposed ideas. There is another practice that drives me nuts and that is when defenders slide under the offensive player while taking a jumpshot.
In the Denver-LA series, JR Smith undercuts Kobe on every jumpshot. Hence he’s had to kickout his legs wildly to avoid injury. Amazing he’s able to hit shots and not get hurt.

I believe this is in the rule books, but I have never seen a call on it.

I’m sorry, but for anyone who understands basketball officiating, Peitrus had to be call for a foul. He was going to be beat by Lebron, so he jumped in front of him SIDEWAYS. Watch the replay and you’ll see how clear it was. He wasn’t in legal guarding position, and it caused Lebron to trip. Had he kept his body in legal guarding position, I doubt the ref would have called a foul for any contact given the end of game situation. But it was a pretty clear foul.

I had the superstar calls too, but that was the correct call.

Does the rule to re-set the shot clock to only 14, rather than 24, after a non-shooting defensive foul (or a kick) bother anyone else? Do they really need this cheap rule to speed up the game?

When you bring the ball up the floor, you should have 18-19 seconds to run the offense. If you get a defensive foul and get 14 seconds on the clock, there will only be 11-12 seconds to run the offense, perhaps less if you throw the inbounds pass into the backcourt, so it feels like you get penalized for drawing a foul.

If a team fouls Yao on the blocks with 12 seconds on the clock, the Rockets are already into their offense, they’ve worked the ball to where they want it on the floor, and they still have 10 seconds to operate. This is a whole lot better than inbounding to Brooks at 35 feet from the basket with 14 seconds.

I know it makes the game more “exciting”, but getting 6 possessions in the last 25 seconds of a close game is silly. 2 rule changes:

1) No more advancing across the halfcourt line on a timeout. This is like saying you can call a timeout and advance the ball 5 yards halfway to the first down line in football.

2) Non-shooting defensive fouls in the last minute are 1 shot and the ball. In a way this goes along with the “Chancey” argument above: play the game, try to steal the ball; don’t turn this into a free throw contest.