Originally Posted by
millerecu
First, I am a basketball nut. While I am not as savvy as most of you in the nuances of the game, I absolutely watch it just as much. I guess you can call me the casual fan. I whole heartedly agree the NBA is full of the "best of the best" and they ultimately should be able to put out a great product essentially every game. However, in the game you mentioned. Why in the world would the defending champs, with arguably two or three of the best players in the NBA, ever resort to a hack a Shaq on Deandre Jordan? It just makes the game hard to watch for the casual fan, and the casual fan is who the NBA wants to attract. Shaq himself wanted to know what happened to teams just beating the other by playing superior basketball. In the same game I watched arguably the best power forward in the game, one of my favorite players going back to college, set moving picks (literally pushing the ball handlers defender towards the 3 point line) at least 3 times and it never gets called. It is a rule that the man setting a pick has to be set correct?
It's called exploiting the rules (hack a shaq) which every sport does. Look at Duke for instance, we get called out for taking charges but hey guess what? As long as you can do it we will try. They will probably make a rule at sometime to stop the "hack shaq" but I kinda wish they wouldn't. Make the guys learn free throws coach!
Example from football just this year. New England Patriots were running those weird plays with receivers on the field checking in as ineligible just to confuse teams and it was working. NFL just made a rule against it for the upcoming season.
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