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Buller64

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  1. So you are intentionally missing the statement that was made. "The biggest problem is that it gives the losing team a chance to win by breaking the rules of the game. It is the only game where you can win by breaking the rules." My challenge to you is tell me what other major sport gives the losing team a chance to win by intentionally breaking the rules? Your argument that the winning team just has to make free throws is irrelevant. Because my argument is that the losing team should not have the chance to win by breaking the rules. No football team improves their chance to win by intentionally breaking the rules and getting caught. No baseball team improves their chance to win by breaking the rules and getting caught. No hockey team improves their chance to win by breaking the rules and getting caught. No soccer team improves their chance to win by breaking the rules and getting caught. No lacrosse team improves their chance to win by breaking the rules and getting caught. Only in basketball can you improve your chances of winning by breaking the rules and getting caught. As to your suggestion of stopping free throws at the end of games they actually tried that in the 1970s. Player injuries increased so they discontinued it. In the 1980s they tried giving free throws and the ball, but the number of blow-outs increased and people stopped watching the game on TV. In the 1990s they added the three point shot. I still think they should have stayed with the original rule that the 3- point shot only applied in the last two minutes of the game. They changed that rule because it was too difficult to tell when the 3-point shot applied with a continuous clock. However, with modern technology I think it could be done with the backboard lighting up green on the edges (like the shot clock violation) starting at two minutes left in the fourth quarter. No attempt has been made to fix this problem since the 1990s because David Stern decided that referees should call the rules differently for different players.
  2. Ok, apparently you trying to be a pain (watch out Puc you may have competition here). A foul refers to illegal personal contact or unsportsmanlike conduct on the court or sidelines of a game. Every foul violates a rule, but not every rule violation counts as a foul. Therefore, fouling at the end of a game does in fact violate the rules. I would tell you to refer to a rule book but based on what I have seen of basketball lately the rulebook apparently no longer exists.
  3. A foul means that you broke the rules or has that changed too?
  4. I agree that this fouling at the end of the game desperately needs to be changed. The biggest problem is that it gives the losing team a chance to win by breaking the rules of the game. It is the only game where you can win by breaking the rules. WTF? Why have rules then? That is absolutely ridiculous. The NBA tried to fix this problem by instituting a 3- point shot but that hasn;t worked. It is time to try something else.
  5. He won't stay here long enough to break the records, end of next season he goes to a Power school.
  6. BB is 8/14 (9/15?) but only one completion where he threw the ball for more than 5 yards. Not too much downfield. This is going to hurt the run game since the safeties can move closer to the line.
  7. First Quarter looks eerily similar to last week. 14 -7 score, on drive at start of second quarter and dominated the first.
  8. Guess the strength of this team will be running the ball. We only dropped back three times on that drive.
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