So what do you think? I go for options 2 or 3 myself. This is in response to the crappy Game 3 calls.
I voted for given number of times, but I think the best system would be to lose a timeout if you are wrong, but if you are right, then you can challenge as much as you want. We want to get as many calls right as we can, with some punishment for frivolous/fraudulent challenges.
You know, it sucks that i didn't think of that. It would force the referees to really tighten up their calls.
Of course, the time it would take to review, it would be like a 5 minute break, and you could have a time-out and time to rest your players. I think it's a bad idea. This will slow down the game and break the flow. A coach could call a challenge instead of a time-out, burn a time-out, and get a load of time to quiet the crowd, rest his players, and plot a play. I don't like it one bit. What I do think should happen is to give the ref's a chance to correct a mistake by reviewing it at their disertion. If they feel a call is critical enough double check - let them do it. Let them decide how to call the game. Ultimately, that's their job, not the coaches.
In the NFL it is like 90 seconds or something. It takes them about 15 seconds when they check the end of quarter shots right now. There is no reason to think it would take five minutes to resolve a challenge. You can just make the challenge time limit the same as a time out, or even less than a time out.
I've been saying that for years. The only problem with that is definations of fouls in basketball are so abstract, sometime a play can be called both ways. It all depends on the angle, timing, and location. But I do think that system can be used on calls involving time (i.e. shot clock), locations (like when Finley stole the ball from out of bound and if a player was inside the half circle when drawing a charge), and details like who touched the ball last before it went out of bound.
I'd really say only certain types of calls. Like who's ball is it or how much time is left on the clock ... technical things. No way will coaches EVER be allowed to review a personal foul.
