Intentional fouling is a cancer to the NBA. We all know this. IMHO every game the NBA head honcho's let this happen adds legitimacy to this method of "getting back into the game." Let's face it, the two minute rule in tonight's game would have failed if Dwight wasn't making his free-throws. That rule is only a band-aid. And a terrible one at that. The rule should be changed as following: intentional fouls = two free-throws and new possession of the ball. It's as simple as that. If you want to take your own player out and have no more timeouts and there's no dead ball, you should be willing to give two free-throws and possession. Intentional fouls have should have no other application in basketball. Do you have any other solutions to Hack-a-Dwight?
Looks like it, unless were blowing a team out by 30.. but even then they might still consider it, it's gotten annoying real fast.. every freaking game, smh.. I hope they make changes to this.. it's not entertaining at all and takes away from what the NBA was meant to be viewed as
Yes. Until he starts doing what he did tonight on a consistent basis, Houston is the home of Hack-a-Howard.
Are there any rules that prevent a player from running out of bounds??? Dwight should just in bound the ball and run out of bounds into the crowd.
I hope so, the more this happens, the less it becomes a sporadic issue and instead becomes a major brand issue for the nba
Yes, new rule prevents that. The hack-a-center is the most girly way to play a man's game. Bill Worrell talked to some dude in NY involved with league officiating and the league is looking into this. Hopefully it ends soon.
Is McHale is keeping Dwight in the game so he can overcome his fear of Hack-a-Dwight... Or is he just boneheaded?
I wonder if looking at it tonight Dwight realizes how easy this can be...and instead being scared of going to the FT line he embraces it. I think that is the main difference mentally. Guys like Harden beg to go to the line. Howard is probably thinking "Oh boy..." although he has a decent form and the touch is there but maybe not the focus.
Morey encourages teams to do it, so im all for it, its just a shame when im watching and you se people walk out because of it
If we could blow out the teams we are supposed to blow out then hack a Dwight would not happen. We could have blown this game open. Hopefully later in the season we will keep our foot on the gas and blow teams out before the 4th quarter.
2 things will stop it(aside from the league changing the rules in the offseason). The Rockets consistently building 20+ point leads on opponents in the 4th quarter. And Dwight knocking down 60% or more of his foul shots on a regular basis. But if a team's only down by 2 or 3 possessions, can you blame them if they resort to Hack-a-Dwight? It helped win the Lakers that game against us a couple weeks ago.
Nuggets were down 15 points when they started intentionally fouling. The Nets started hacking JJ Reddick tonight. For those who think hacking is a legitimate basketball strategy, what do you call it? Offense? Defense? It's not basketball.
