Have the referrees settled back in to calling games the way they always have? I see a lot of drives to the basket with plenty of contact and no whistles. A look at the offensive statistics around the league show a majority of teams scoring below 100 PPG. Only 9 teams averages at least 100 PPG.
Ive said it before, and Ill say it again. Scoring in the league is only up, when the refs blow an unbelievable amount of whistles. Last nights game was a typical game whistle wise (as of last year). Look at the score. Hey if the league really really wants to improve scoring. I have a simple way to add 6 or so points per team per game. Tell the refs to correctly call the continuation. If a player is fouled, but doesnt put the ball on the floor before he shoots, then its continuation. 2 plus the foul! If Hakeem is in the act of shooting, gets fouled at the foul line, takes two giant steps after the whistle and dunks one home, by rule it should be 2 plus the foul.
I cannot agree on the Palming. It gives the offensive player too much of an Advantage. We all wanna see dunks but 3 steps between bounces or After your last one is to much. I watch Jordan bounce it once at the Elbow, Take two steps bounce it again and take 2 more. As a defensive player you at at his mercy. Rocket River
Sac 81 Van 77 (45 PFs) Sac 126 Den 116 (44 PFs) I picked those at random. I think you may be over-simplifying the issue. The refs have to blow the whistle to keep the teams from playing hold-em defense and to reward the offensive team when they do. The problem seems to be consistency. The players test each crew to see how much they can get away with and exploit the crews that don't call it as tight. My contention is that most of the crews have settled back into calling the games the way they always have. Then again, if they allow "high dribbles" like they did last night, they should let the "palming" slide as well. Think how much more explosive and creative the players can be if palming wasn't called. By rule it could be called on every play, but I don't think it should ever be called as long as the dribbling continues.
