Officiating - Points of Emphasis

[NUdiehard]

Interesting article in SI regarding new college basketball officiating coordinator and "Points of Emphasis" for this season:

 

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/10/05/jd-collins-mens-basketball-officiating-rules-changes

 

 

This movement, and Collins’s hiring, is coming at a critical time. During this off-season, the men’s basketball rules committee issued its most sweeping changes in a generation. While most of the attention has been focused on the shortening of the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds and the widening of the block/charge arc from three feet to four, the committee also put forth points of emphasis in five different areas in hopes of cleaning up the game. They are: protecting the dribbler, cutting down on physical post play, eliminating moving screens, making it harder to draw a charge and allowing greater freedom of movement for players without the ball (i.e., no more bumping cutters).

 

[49r]

I can see most of those points of emphasis being somewhat advantageous to our smaller lineup, except for "making it harder to draw a charge".

[hhcmatt]

It's possible BJ Day would have seen time with this new rule.

 

[NUdiehard]

In the article, there is a link to another SI article about the offensive decline in college basketball:

 

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/02/26/hoop-thoughts-college-basketball-scoring-pace

 

 

Bilas, who serves on the panel and played in the 1986 Final Four when he was a senior at Duke, was amazed by what he saw. “When you see film from the old days, and sadly my era is the old days, the game looks so much cleaner,” he says. “We watched video of the 1985 final game between Villanova and Georgetown, and there was not one charge/block play. Not one. People talk about Georgetown intimidating people, but they intimidated people by blocking their shots, stealing the ball and dunking on them, not by bodying up a post man and bumping a cutter, or grabbing cutters so you’re disrupting the timing of an offense. The way guys play today, they’d foul out in the first five minutes.”

 

The NBA offers the best blueprint. Before the start of the 2000-01 season, then-commissioner David Stern tapped Jerry Colangelo, the general manager of the Phoenix Suns, to chair a special committee that was assigned to eliminate “all the muggings,” as Colangelo puts it. They devised prohibitions against hand-checking and other tactics that had tipped the advantage too far to the defense. There were many games that got bogged down in fouls early on, but eventually the coaches and players adapted.

Colangelo, who is now the chairman of USA Basketball’s board of directors, believes college basketball needs to go through the same transition. “Basketball ultimately is a game of fluidity,” he says. “It took about two years for everyone to adjust, but that dissipates over a period of time. You pay that price, but in the long-term that’s what was in the best interests of the game.”

 

[49r]

Hopefully these points of emphasis last more than a couple of weeks like when they tried to clean up the game a couple years ago.

[swoof]

I love this. "The committee also passed a rule which denies a driver the ability to draw a foul simply by jumping into a defender when he goes up for a shot." I just hope it is called consistently.

[Norm Peterson]

I love this. "The committee also passed a rule which denies a driver the ability to draw a foul simply by jumping into a defender when he goes up for a shot." I just hope it is called consistently.

Hallelujah!!!!

[Silverbacked1]

Wait you mean I can no longer kick my leg out in front of me on my crappy jump shot and get the call any more?

 

Some guys careeries will be over!!!

 

How am I going to make it to the league?????

 

Think of the children for god sake!!!!!  

[Norm Peterson]

Wait you mean I can no longer kick my leg out in front of me on my crappy jump shot and get the call any more?

 

Some guys careeries will be over!!!

 

How am I going to make it to the league?????

 

Think of the children for god sake!!!!!  

They prolly eat a lot, huh?

 

I would not want the starvation of your kids to be on MY conscience.   That's enough for me to say let's keep things the way they are.  I'll probably get out-voted by all those other heartless bastards out there, though.  Just sayin'.

[AuroranHusker]

Wait, did I hear that right, Silver's a pro hoopster!?       

[Huskerpapa]

Rules are always interesting...what matters more than the rule, is the interpretation of the rule.  Points of emphasis are usually front and center early in the year, but as time passes so do those points of emphasis.

[AuroranHusker]

Well, we all know that eventually the calls on the court end up trumping many of the more idealistic "points of emphasis" as regional referee preference takes hold. Hopefully the 'free flow' of the offense is adhered to all year in the B1G as that particular one would greatly assist Miles' system.

[jimmykc]

Or as Karl Hess would say,"when I walk onto the court, I  decide the points of emphasis!"

[49r]

More like he's point to his crotch and saying "I GOT YOUR POINT OF EMPHASIS RIGHT HERE!"  "BOOM!!!"

[Red Don]

Thought he was Gone!  (Hess, that is.  Didn't the ACC fire him?) 

[AuroranHusker]

Thought he was Gone!  (Hess, that is.  Didn't the ACC fire him?) 

 

He's a black cat with nine lives.

[Norm Peterson]

More like he's point to his crotch and saying "I GOT YOUR POINT OF EMPHASIS RIGHT HERE!"  "BOOM!!!"

That's what she said?

[NUdiehard]

Another interesting article on the officiating and points of emphasis in the game and why they are being implemented.

 

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2015-10-30/college-basketball-why-game-could-be-faster-season

 

 

“Last year there was a lot of slippage and we went back to business as usual,” Clougherty said. “The rules committee, competition committee and NABC decided we have to have not just a change, but a cultural change. It’s going back to more of a skilled game.”

The shift from free-flowing action to physical play evolved over years, Clougherty said.

Weight room training became an integral part of college basketball. Point guards are built like middleweight champions now and power forwards wouldn’t look out of place on a DI defensive line.

Clougherty officiated the 1985 national championship game. Heavy underdog Villanova shot a NCAA finals record 78.6 percent against Georgetown, which was considered the best defensive team in the nation.

The video above reveals players who are thinner. There's minimal holding, pushing, shoving and overall defensive interference - acts now commonplace.

“How do you get it back?” Clougherty said. “I think you have to take some drastic measures.”

 

[AuroranHusker]