Rules Changes You'd Like to See

Dribbling is overrated.

 

Every team allows 3 challenges per game

 

pay-per-view/HBO/showtime etc games where certain players have mics and a timeout cam/mic setup to hear what goes on during time outs, in all its vulgar glory. i'd pay to hear and see that. Kind of like boxing matches how you can hear the trainer cuss out their boxer in between rounds...

other than that..

larger court would be nice.
coaches challenge.
only 2 refs. less calls to make up for the coaches challenge.

 

Alright, I've got 3:

1.) Get rid of homecourt advantage. All teams now play ON THE MOON.
2.) Get rid of the backboard, dribbling, and contact. Disallow shots taken while being defended. And no running with the ball.
3.) Install a bungie line at the three point line that players can attach to a special harness on their shorts to go for a 3 point DUNK.

 

How about instead of a jump ball, a steel cage death match?

And instead of power dancers, strippers?

And free beer.

 

I would allow an extra step without dribbling.

Instead of 3 steps for a travel, it would have to be 4.

 

i would get rid of being able to foul out of a game. no 6 foul limit any more. i think guys sitting for foul trouble only hurts the game and too often affects the result of the game.

only in basketball do you get taken out of the game for stuff that happens during the regular course of the action. if you get called for too many holds or false starts in football, they don't kick you out. making too many errors or throwing too many balls doesn't knock you out of a baseball game. it just sucks when a guy picks up 2 fouls in a few minutes and them misses a bunch of time and then often misses more of the game later on just for committing a foul. fouls already have a consequence, free throws for the other team.

now you might say that people would foul like crazy and the game would just be a slugfest and be stopped all the time, but to me the 5 team foul penalty in each quarter ensures that this doesn't happen. this is already a cap on how many fouls teams are going to want to commit. people aren't just going to keep committing fouls and giving the other team 2 free throws over and over b/c giving up free throws is not a good strategy.

now you could also argue that for someone like shaq he would just get fouled all the time, but a) that's one person in history basically, b) it's not other team's fault that shaq (or ben wallace) can't hit free throws, for everyone else 2 free throws is much worse than just straight up D and c) even shaq's 50% free throw shooting will hurt you over time.

now maybe getting rid of fouling out entirely wouldn't work, but i would still do something. maybe do like they do when a team only has 5 players left in the game and give a technical for each foul over 5 (so 6 and up) to make committing more than 6 fouls very costly, but not so costly that stars are missing huge chunks of the game. or change it to 8 fouls so that people won't foul like crazy, but you still have to mess up pretty good before the game is changed and/or ruined.

either way, i just don't like foul trouble to affect games as much as it does when fouls already come with a heavy enough penalty.

 

Reset the rules to the mid '90s.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball

 

Bounce it off an opposing teams member head into the basket for 20 points.

 

if that happens, mutombo would be starting. his nasty elbows are going to kill anyone, even dwight and shaq. then even drunk fans and strippers would sex mutombo

 

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The same rules for touching which are called outside the paint should also be called in the paint!!!
The Center or Power Forward positions when the move out of the paint they are officaited as though they are still playing in the paint. It needs to stop!!!

 

widen the court by four feet on each side.
and fix the three point line to whatever the normal arch is on the outside.




take away the zone.

 

floppers should be made to watch brokeback mountain everytime they flop.

 

Those extra 4 feet would really help in basketball games when you are not intentionally trying to run out of bounds while shooting a shane battier 3 from the corner.