What is the point of these rules? Every NBA game has and will have blown calls. It's an incredibly difficult job for humans to do. There will likely be at least 1 or more blown calls per team, per game. Each coach will have 1 challenge which will be upheld. Likely each will use it at the earliest possible opportunity to not lose it. See e.g. Rockets Bucks. The net of all this will basically be zero. Each team will gain a net a +1.0 or so from each successful challenge. All it's going to do is make games longer. The problem with officiating is consistency. Giannis jumps into a set guy znd gets block calls, Harden doesn't get that call and instead gets microscopic push off calls against him, or gets a 3 pointer waved off while undercut. Or gets 3 free throws. Its not the individual call its the consistency, within games, between games etc. Challenge rule does **** all here.
One per half and if successful you get to use again. 1 just simply isn’t enough. Or... add a referee to each game!
I think you should get 1 for the first 3 quarters and 1 in the 4th...or just one in the 4th...were plenty of calls in the 4th that could have changed the game I think it's going to take coaches a week...the smart coaches at least...to realize there is no reason to waste the challenge before the last 3 minutes of the game.
This or use the challenge for defence instead of attack. For example keep it to save your superstar from fouling out. If Bud had kept his challenge, then Giannis wouldn' have fouled out then.
the challenge call from MDA contributed to Giannis fouling out...Rockets couldn’t take advantage of the opportunity as the Bucks’ role players dominated our midget ball and no one but Russ could score in the 4th EG threw the game for us with his trash play AFAIC
i said this last night. since its 1 per game it's obviously one you gotta save til closer to the end of a game because so much can happen later in a basketball game using the challenge early. but emotions on calls you disagree with early will be a factor for coaches.
You shouldn’t lose your challenge until you’re wrong. Its incentive for the coaches to use it sparingly, and it’s incentive for the refs to not make bullshit calls until they get the money line they want. Refs get playoff games based on how many challenges are successful against them. The refs with the most gets zero.
I'm fine with it. Better than nothing. Longer games? Doesn't bother me. Here's what I wasn't expecting (but should have known better) -- it seems like the refs get vindictive when you challenge their call and start giving the opposing team the 50/50 calls to retaliate. I really do get that vibe. I swear the NBA has the pettiest refs in sports.
I don't get the notion that you get one. Even if it slows down the game, if the refs, in real time see their mistakes I'm guessing they will be less likely to make them in the future. Let's keep this from being a gimmick, and let's make this actually work. Bull's 4th official on the ready and waiting idea isn't a bad one either if speed is really an issue.
Should keep the challenge call until you get it wrong. Every correct use retains the call. But it costs a timeout to make a challenge in every quarter except the 4th (lose timeout only if challenge incorrect) Limits the amount of calls that could be challenged, but yet provides enough opportunity to get it right down the stretch. That's what I would do anyway!
