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13 proposed rule changes:
• Widen the lane to 16 feet (from 12 feet)
• Reset team fouls at the 10:00 minute mark of each half and begin double bonus on the 5th team foul of each 10-minute segment. This would eliminate the one-and-one free throw.
• Allow laptops, tablets, or similar devices in the bench area for coaching purposes.
• Award possession of the ball to the defense when they create a held ball situation.
• Limit the number of timeouts that may be called by any one team in the last two minutes of the second half or of any overtime period to two.
• In the last two minutes of the second half or of any overtime period, allow instant replay review of potential shot-clock violations when the shot is unsuccessful.
• Eliminate the ten-second backcourt rule.
• Permit the use of Instant Replay on all basket interference/goaltending calls throughout the game, but only when a call has been made by an official.
• Permit a team to decline free throws in the last two minutes of the 2nd half or of any overtime period and elect possession of the ball for a throw-in instead.
• Eliminate offensive basket interference after the ball hits the ring or flange. Would make the rule consistent with the FIBA rule.
• Adjust the traveling rule to allow a player to take two steps after lifting his pivot foot which would make moves such as the spin move, Euro-step and step-back shot legal.
• Eliminate the five second closely guarded rule.
• Adopt a modified six-foul rule with the following provisions:
1. A player may not commit more than three personal/technical fouls in any one half. Any player that commits a 4th foul in a half is disqualified.
2. A player may commit three personal/technical fouls in the first half and three in the second half. In this case, the player is allowed six fouls before being disqualified.
3. A player may commit two personal/technical fouls in the first half and would be disqualified on his fourth personal/technical in the second half. Total – six fouls.
4. A player may commit zero or one personal/technical fouls in the first half and would be disqualified on the player’s fourth personal/technical in the second half. See #1.

The only three I like (not that it matters) are:
• Award possession of the ball to the defense when they create a held ball situation.
• Eliminate offensive basket interference after the ball hits the ring or flange. Would make the rule consistent with the FIBA rule.
• Eliminate the five second closely guarded rule. -this one is so subjective and randomly enforced anyway.

Permitting a team to decline free throws in the last two minutes sends the message that free throws don't matter and there will be less motivation for players to improve that skill.

Most of the others seem to negatively affect a team's ability to strategize a comeback in a close game.

I think it should just be 6 fouls. Eliminate the need for all that math.

That doesn’t even make sense. Inbound and get fouled. Decline free throws. Inbound and get fouled. Decline free throws. How long would this take to play out, and how long would we be willing to watch? I would walk out of the arena if UAB was doing that for a prolonged stretch.

I dislike the rule proposals eliminating the free throws as well as the one-and-one. Free throws are a skill that shouldn't be removed.
Almost of these proposed rules reward physical talent over basketball skills and basketball IQ, IMO. Do. Not. Like.

I can be convinced of rewarding defensive effort for held balls, and yet even that isn't cut and dried. Offense can have a pass deflected and an offensive player can make a hell of a hustle play to have that be a held ball as opposed to a turnover.

(05-06-2021 07:40 AM)BlazerFromMD Wrote:  The only ones I like (not that it matters) are:
• Award possession of the ball to the defense when they create a held ball situation.
• Eliminate offensive basket interference after the ball hits the ring or flange. Would make the rule consistent with the FIBA rule.
• Eliminate the five second closely guarded rule. -this one is so subjective and randomly enforced anyway.

Permitting a team to decline free throws in the last two minutes sends the message that free throws don't matter and there will be less motivation for players to improve that skill.

Most of the others seem to negatively affect a team's ability to strategize a comeback in a close game.

I agree.

I dislike every one of these proposed changes. I hope none pass.

It ain't broke, but they are trying to fix it anyway. I understand that they are always making sure they tweak things, but those are some major changes that do not need to be made. Hopefully the committee will make wise decisions.

The only two that I would agree with are:

• Eliminate offensive basket interference after the ball hits the ring or flange. Would make the rule consistent with the FIBA rule.
• Eliminate the five second closely guarded rule.

According to CBS Sports:

Likely to be recommended
Laptops, tablets allowed on the bench for coaching purposes only
Tweak traveling interpretation to universally allow players to Euro step, use spin moves and step-backs

Unlikely to be recommended
Widening the lane to 16 feet (currently 12 feet)
Award possession to defense after a held-ball
Eliminate 10-second backcourt rule
Allow offensive team to decline free throws in final two minutes and overtime(s); opt for inbound instead
Eliminate five-second closely guarded rule
Allow instant replay on shot-clock violation in final two minutes/overtime on a missed shot
Allow instant replay on basket interference/goaltending calls -- but only if/after an official calls the violation
Potential for two-year NIT trial period
Two-timeout limit per team with under two minutes in regulation and throughout overtime(s)
Eliminate offensive basket interference and use FIBA rule instead: ball is always live after it makes contact with the rim

Potential for two-year NIT trial period
Two-timeout limit per team with under two minutes in regulation and throughout overtime(s)
Eliminate offensive basket interference and use FIBA rule instead: ball is always live after it makes contact with the rim

Big debates await
Introduce quasi quarters by resetting team fouls at 10-minute mark of each half. Begin double bonus on fifth foul within each 10-minute segment. This eliminates the one-and-one free throw
Modified six-foul rule: player is allowed three fouls per half (would be disqualified if they committed four fouls in a half). However, a player can commit two or three first-half fouls and have as many four or three more to use for the remainder of the game, allowing for six total

So, basically we’re admitting the NBA has been allowing all these dang Harden hops that were 10000 percent traveling, every single time, back when I played, and that every one of these Twitter twerps who say “know the game” when they say it isn’t traveling are, well, full of it. My eyes aren’t lying to me —- that crap was 100 times out of 100 a travel back in the day. And so now we’re just gonna let them all hop, skip and jump however they want, haha.

Quote:the NCAA men's basketball rules committee announced Friday after three days worth of meetings to discuss what rule changes the sport should consider.

There were the 13 major agenda items (as previously detailed on CBS Sports) heading into the committee's meeting in Indianapolis. In the end, five things -- including some previously undisclosed items -- wound up getting pushed through for recommendation for next season or experimentation first in the 2022 NIT.

Quote:•Flopping will result in a class b technical foul
•Increase to six fouls, with a maximum of four fouls allowed per half (experimental in NIT for 21-22)
•Allow at the league level for coaches to use technology, live statistics and video on the bench
•Team timeouts can serve as/replace media timeouts
•Shot clocks will now be able to display tenths of a second

All rules, if passed in June by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP), would be in effect for next season.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basket...20treated.

My biggest issue w/ college bball games consistently, if not always, run over the 2-hr broadcast window. Even without my selfish frustration when it cuts into the tip of Blazer games, networks can’t be happy with that. Anything that speeds up play, and most of these changes seem aimed at doing so, I can get behind. Same with college fball which has made some changes with that goal in mind.

(05-07-2021 08:50 PM)blazr Wrote:  My biggest issue w/ college bball games consistently, if not always, run over the 2-hr broadcast window. Even without my selfish frustration when it cuts into the tip of Blazer games, networks can’t be happy with that. Anything that speeds up play, and most of these changes seem aimed at doing so, I can get behind. Same with college fball which has made some changes with that goal in mind.

This post symbolizes the changed priorities our culture has made since the 1950s. As I mentioned in another thread, I attended a NY Giants @ Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field as a teenager. We had a 6 hour layover at Idlewild Airport so my dad got two tickets for the game. We were there for 3 hours during which they played 5 innings. We had to leave to catch our plane and I still don't know who won that game.

I was perturbed at the slow pace of he game but later realized that the fans were probably happy with it. That was their whole night's activity with no other place or TV show to rush away for. They probably would have felt cheated by a game that lasted only 2 or 21/2 hours. They probably ate supper before the game or ate at the game and made a night of it. Feeling satisfied by a full night's fun, they went home to get ready for the next day at work. Back then, local TV signed off at midnight with the National Anthem or the film "High Flight". You woke up to a TV Test pattern until 7am when the TODAY program with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoolie came on.

for me, I still remember the "Brooklyn Sym Phony" that played tunes along the 1st base line box seats and played a funeral dirge when the opposing pitcher had to leave the game and walked back to the dugout.