[ SIMPLE FIX ] There's a simple fix to end all the hacking!

Here's how to counteract it this season. Let's just go full r****d with this crap...

When possession changes and Rockets are on offense, the player being hacked needs to haul ass behind the basketball goal and let the defender chase after him. At worst you'll have a 4 on 4 but as we saw a few times yesterday when the "hack" was on, the Spurs defenders weren't prepared to pay defense and the Rockets got a wide open 3 from Ariza when the hack took too long to happen.

This will help more to get this rule changed in the off-season as this crap becomes even more of joke to the game of basketball.

Unless there is rule that a player can't run out of bounds like that?

 

I think its a technical to run out of bounds. One way to counter it is to have dorsey flop on every hit!

 

Easier still? Make the ******* free throws.

 

Are we so pathetic that we need to change the entire game so that our millions paid players can have an excuse for not making free throws?

 

Yes, Daryl Morey has assembled a team of some of the most pathetic free throw shooters in NBA history and they will not get any better.

 

The argument about Morey putting together a team of terrible free throw shooters is valid. But we have to separate some ideas here.

Posts like yours are not a valid defense of the hack. "Change the entire game," is just an irrational emotional appeal.

When basketball was first conceived, I highly doubt that anachronistic ideas like "the bonus" and "hack-a-Shaq" were considered integral.

If a player can't shoot free throws, that will be to their disadvantage when the other team fouls them to avoid a layup, dunk or shot within normal game flow. That makes sense within the spirit of the game.

Taken to this extreme though: a player is being fouled when they have absolutely no part in the play developing on the floor, so that one team can gain an advantage that is purely external and not relevant to the actions being taken by the offensive team. It removes the ability of the offensive team to dictate what happens with their possession.

Does that seem right? Remove Daryl Morey, Joey Dorsey, Josh Smith and coach Popovich from your mind. We're talking about the purity of a sport.

By removing that perversion, we are not treading on some sacred ground.

Joey Dorsey and thousands of other NBA players over time will never be 60% free throw shooters. It's insane to assume that all players can shoot 75%+ if they "work harder".

It is very sane to ask a league that has instituted arbitrary rules and interpretations of rules to amend them, as has been done dozens of times in the past.

I could go on. What a fallacy. Things don't need to continue to be simply because they are. If we remove/amend this in the rule book, teams like the Spurs will still be great and will need to find other loopholes to exploit.

 

Roflmao run to the red rowdies

 

we should of hacked Tim Duncan or another one of their bigs and let the game go on for HOURS!!! that would make the nab do something. imagine this crap on national television lol freaking 4-5 hour games on ABC yeah that would stop it. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ controls everything!!

 

This is a very good idea, actually.

 

Harden's half court shot should have counted. You have to actually foul the player, not just touch them. You can't have double standards like that. Touching someone in the backcourt should always be a foul or never be a foul.

 

I wonder why no team did that, giving the other team the same medicine, so to speak. So the whole game consists of watching the two worst FT shooters dueling.

The fans would boo. The media would faint. And it would be who-blink-first battle of the will.

 

My easy solution is if the foul is off-ball and the team is in the bonus, the fouled team gets to choose the shooter. No more hacking strategies ever.

Alternatively, player that has the ball in their hands at the time of the foul gets to shoot. I am ok with that.

I don't like the idea of giving teams an option to inbound instead because i do still like the idea of late game fouling to give a team a chance.

Being allowed to foul any player and forcing that player to take the shot is stupid. Its supposed to be a penalty for the team that fouled, yet in this situation its an advantage for them.

 

Could you imagine if it was a Sunday game on abc and we intinially fouled out every player on our team(we'd have to forfeit) so we could hack like 80 times.

The nba would be real quick about changing rules if we made people watch hacking for 2 straight hours

 

Im telling you that would stop this crap ASAP possibly as soon as the playoffs. thats why baseball is horrible to watch. this is America we want FAST and EXCITING everything. who would watch two teams that shoot free throws every time you inbound the ball.

 

Actually

Once youre down to 5 remaining players, its impossible to foul out beyond that point.

 

The absolute easiest solution is to use the same rules they use for under two minutes - one shot and the ball - for away from the ball penalties.

I expect the NBA to do something about it sooner than later - it sucks the energy out of a game, and I would bet they lose a lot of casual viewers each time it happens.

 

there should never be an incentive to foul

the NBA will make a rule change next season for sure