"That's not basketball!" - creating fouls by causing contact

[jmost]

In Game 3, Marcus Smart stepped in front of Kevin Durant as KD was running up the court, drawing a charge call. KD probably had his head turned looking for the ball. Anyway, after the call, you could see KD saying to the ref "that's not basketball". I agree with him 100%. How can you run a fast break, one of the more exciting aspects of basketball, if the offensive player has to worry about getting called for an offensive foul if he looks back for a pass and the defender steps in his path?

Steve Nash was quoted saying the same thing about a move Trae Young pulled on the Nets a while back. Coming off a pick, and sensing his defender trailing him, he pulled up suddenly and the defender ran into him, getting called for a foul. The whole point of what Young did was to create contact.

For years we have seen guards jumping into defenders on the way to the hoop. The offensive player created the contact intentionally, yet the defender gets called for a foul.

And finally, we see shooters getting their defender up in the air and then jumping into them. Once again, the offensive player created the contact initially but the defender gets penalized.

I HATE all this. Fouls didn't used to be something you sought out. In my opinion the NBA needs to rewrite the rules to state that any player who seeks out contact can't be the beneficiary of a foul call. That includes the taking of charges in front of the hoop. They should move that charge circle from 4 feet to 6 feet away. If your whole intent is to create a collision, you shouldn't get rewarded for it.

[freshnthehouse]

Agreed. The league needs to look at cleaning up a lot of rules this off-season. They've pretty much disregarded palming and travelling as violations, which is a pet peeve of mine.

In a perfect world, widen the court about 6 feet, and then move the three point line back as well. Personally I'd love to see the three point shot go away, but that genie is already out of the bottle. But if you widen the court it'll make it possible for post players to have a little more room to operate. and moving the three point line back would make it a more difficult shot. To player's credit, they've practiced outside shooting to the point that a large swatch of the NBA has a good three point stroke. Back in the day a guy with a nice three point shot was kind of unique. Now it's almost a necessity.

[eja117]

May 31, 2021 8:56:51 GMT -5 jmost said:

In Game 3, Marcus Smart stepped in front of Kevin Durant as KD was running up the court, drawing a charge call. KD probably had his head turned looking for the ball. Anyway, after the call, you could see KD saying to the ref "that's not basketball". I agree with him 100%. How can you run a fast break, one of the more exciting aspects of basketball, if the offensive player has to worry about getting called for an offensive foul if he looks back for a pass and the defender steps in his path?

Steve Nash was quoted saying the same thing about a move Trae Young pulled on the Nets a while back. Coming off a pick, and sensing his defender trailing him, he pulled up suddenly and the defender ran into him, getting called for a foul. The whole point of what Young did was to create contact.

For years we have seen guards jumping into defenders on the way to the hoop. The offensive player created the contact intentionally, yet the defender gets called for a foul.

And finally, we see shooters getting their defender up in the air and then jumping into them. Once again, the offensive player created the contact initially but the defender gets penalized.

I HATE all this. Fouls didn't used to be something you sought out. In my opinion the NBA needs to rewrite the rules to state that any player who seeks out contact can't be the beneficiary of a foul call. That includes the taking of charges in front of the hoop. They should move that charge circle from 4 feet to 6 feet away. If your whole intent is to create a collision, you shouldn't get rewarded for it.

Agreed. I also don't like the thing Chris Paul does where he sweeps his arms at the defender's hands.

I'm 50/50 on Tre Young's trick.

I'm fine with when a shooter has been hit he tries to shoot so it's a shooting foul. I sometimes see fouls that I think should be shooting fouls that aren't.