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Speak of the Devil... https://twitter.com/RobinWashut/status/316233849753436161

I'm not even arguing whether or not the call on Craft was right or not. But these situations happen 6-8 times a game and the way it's being handled is taking away from the game. At the very least, it needs to be redefined. What they're doing now isn't consistent and is impossible to legislate.

You can't completely get rid of charges or you would have guys plowing over people to get to the basket. What needs to be changed is when someone takes a charge while the offensive guy is the in the air. You can't just slip in front of a guy a split second before he is about to go up for a layup. It is impossible for the offensive guy to avoid contact when he is in the air.I don't think so. Defenders would adjust. There wouldn't be be anyone standing under the rim or sliding under the ball handler from the under side of the lane. Defenders would actually have to defend. There could be an adjustment to compensate if necessary, but the Craft play or even the one on Zeller today, neither actually played defense, they stood there and collapsed when contact came. Play defense, contest the ball, don't play tackling dummy.The line was designed to keep people from standing under the basket and getting rewarded. Forcing people to play defense as you say. Imo if you get rid of the charge rule the defense couldn't adjust. When you needed freethrows your point could just come down and ram into his defender and you're on your way to the foul line. Working hard and beating an offensive player to a spot IS playing defense. And the idea of someone coming from the under side of the lane, they have a name for that - help defense. They would still call offensive fouls on off arm action and contact initiated by the offensive player. The foul where a secondary defender (Craft) sees a player start to drive so he runs across the floor to get in his path and prepare to flop backwards would be eliminated. It's a great idea. The offensive fouls where the defender is moving his feet, sliding along with the ball handler could still be called. Those are called about twice a year and the commentators always tell you that the defender doesn't have to be set. Since the offensive guy initiated contact, dipped his shoulder, etc its still a foul. Just the concept of setting up to take a charge would be eliminated. yes, this. You said it better than I did.

You can't completely get rid of charges or you would have guys plowing over people to get to the basket. What needs to be changed is when someone takes a charge while the offensive guy is the in the air. You can't just slip in front of a guy a split second before he is about to go up for a layup. It is impossible for the offensive guy to avoid contact when he is in the air. I don't think so. Defenders would adjust. There wouldn't be be anyone standing under the rim or sliding under the ball handler from the under side of the lane. Defenders would actually have to defend. There could be an adjustment to compensate if necessary, but the Craft play or even the one on Zeller today, neither actually played defense, they stood there and collapsed when contact came. Play defense, contest the ball, don't play tackling dummy. The line was designed to keep people from standing under the basket and getting rewarded. Forcing people to play defense as you say. Imo if you get rid of the charge rule the defense couldn't adjust. When you needed freethrows your point could just come down and ram into his defender and you're on your way to the foul line. Working hard and beating an offensive player to a spot IS playing defense. And the idea of someone coming from the under side of the lane, they have a name for that - help defense. Then create a rule that doesn't allow you to lower the shoulder. They're making rules like that all the time. They could do it here, too. Make that the offensive foul, dropping the shoulder and ramming the defender. But to slide over stiff as a board and not make a "basketball play" isn't how the game is supposed to be played. Semantically, you're right, it's within the rules, but it's not basketball, or at least it shouldn't be. It's devolved to the point where a guy who comes over to "defend" so late that offensive player has no chance to react isn't what the game is supposed to be. It's a game of action and reaction. It's a rigid play, basketball isn't supposed to be rigid, it's supposed to be a fluid sport. What Craft did was not work hard to beat him to the spot. What Zeller did after his turnover was not beat his guy to the spot. Both plays manifestation of a bad rule and the devolution of the sport, IMO.

I have always had a hard time getting you to shut up about your New York Liberty obsession...

It's not starting out the best for KU... They'll get back in it. They're still explosive and McAdoo just got in foul trouble.

It's not as good as it was a couple of years ago but 3 teams in the sweet 16 is solid in any season.

You can't completely get rid of charges or you would have guys plowing over people to get to the basket. What needs to be changed is when someone takes a charge while the offensive guy is the in the air. You can't just slip in front of a guy a split second before he is about to go up for a layup. It is impossible for the offensive guy to avoid contact when he is in the air. I don't think so. Defenders would adjust. There wouldn't be be anyone standing under the rim or sliding under the ball handler from the under side of the lane. Defenders would actually have to defend. There could be an adjustment to compensate if necessary, but the Craft play or even the one on Zeller today, neither actually played defense, they stood there and collapsed when contact came. Play defense, contest the ball, don't play tackling dummy.

Nah, they just need to change the rule. Get rid of the restricted area all together, make it a foul on the defense. Right now, the defense doesn't need to defend, they just have to beat the ball handler to the spot and stand there. Make it a defensive foul, tighten up a couple of other areas (like jump ball scrums, traveling and hand checking on the perimeter) and you've got a lot of your issues taken care of.

He wasn't late, he had position before the ISU player left the ground. He was in the restircted area. Missed call in a split second. Happens to every team throughout the game. The bigger issue to me is that taking a charge isn't playing defense. It's a bad rule that needs to be overhauled.

Except the north was the stronger division when they split them up. The south stepped it's game up. If this is how the league gets split, the west will have to do the same. NU didn't struggle because their division was weak, it was because they couldn't keep their house in order. Splitting them up by geography is a reasonable solution, especially as the conference has grown as far east and west as it has, it's up to the rest of the teams in the division to rise to the challenge.

I agree that it worked out pretty well for NU, at least I think it will, but Howland just got fired for not performing up to a standard he was well aware existed when he took the job. If he's the coach he thinks he is, he'll want to prove he's still capable. That's a very motivating factor. I don't think there will be any laurel resting for him.

You can take the tweet two ways... You can take it as a "these guys really impressed me... I think I am going to go with them." OR "Wow these guys did not impress me much on this in home visit... Nebraska is probably the front runner for this one, and if they impress on the in home, they are in." Thing about social media, is you can get a wrong vibe just from the words and not any expressions to go with it. And, btw, the tweet was, in fact, as Hooper mentioned, about a shoe purchase.

He recurited pretty well at Pitt, too. It's nice, in theory, I don't see it happening.

I'm in 200 level and at least on the sidelines, it's $11 per.

We'd have to drink to that w/ some Chai and a Mai Tai !! I'm not gonna lie, i these guys all get here, we might get a bye. If we do, I might just die.

not sure about that, though not many saw eye to eye with Peterson.

Butler inbounding down 2, 2.9 on CBS. Go now!

I don't think so. He hired him at Pitt.

Gotta love recruiting!

https://twitter.com/MatthewAtewe41/status/315635982949031936

That's how I like it. Give me chaos on Thurs/Fri, order on Sat/Sunday, excitement the rest of the way.

As presently constituted, at home, we would have had a shot.

We were told that might happen when we joined this conference...