ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
no more kicking in football except for the kick off to start/after a TD
Does this include punting?no more kicking in football except for the kick off to start/after a TD
Does this include punting?
What do you do in the event of a safety?no more kicking except for kick off to start the game/after a TD
What do you do in the event of a safety?
There are plenty of good articles explaining this and presenting alternatives.Yeah, but a charge also can take place anywhere on the court. It's not limited to directly around the basket.
Let me clarify exactly what I mean by a “charge.” I don’t want offensive fouls to be eliminated from the game. There obviously have to be measures in place that prevent offensive players from just lowering their shoulders and plowing through defenders on their way to the rim. I don’t want post defenders to be helpless against someone like Shaq backing them down with reckless abandon, nor do I believe LeBron should be allowed to steamroll Steph Curry on the perimeter. My gripe is with the plays in which help-side defenders run to a spot on the floor, plant their feet, and grab their nuts because they know they can’t make a legitimate play on the ball. In other words, the Marcus Smart defense.
Just to clarify, eliminating the charge does not mean that all offensive fouls should be done away with as well. If anything, this change would give referees the ability to focus on the other types of offensive fouls more closely. Off-arms, lowered shoulders, moving screens, player control fouls and the like would all receive more attention. This would allow referees to officiate the plays more firmly and accurately.
The charge isn’t really a basketball play. I know we’ve tricked ourselves through lore and grainy black-and-white clips that this is a true sacrifice when trying to play defense. It’s really not, especially not anymore. Not with today’s athleticism. The charge is a bailout call for the defense. It’s a game of Three-Card Monte where you’re encouraging collisions as if this were some kind of goal-line stand in football. The alternative would make for a better basketball product, but the league seems so set in its ways on whether or not to change the rule (or even consider it) that it’s willing to create bad situations time and time again.
Let’s take the foot entirely out of football. Hands only. Don’t even run if you don’t have to.no more kicking in football except for the kick off to start/after a TD
Get rid of replay.
seems like at the very least, charges where defenders use their hands to protect their crotch should be outlawed vs them having their hands up, you know, defendingI'm not a fan of the flying backwards 40 feet from the basket charge call, but man I love seeing a guy rotate correctly, get set, and draw an offensive foul from an offensive player driving to the basket.
I can get behind this.seems like at the very least, charges where defenders use their hands to protect their crotch should be outlawed vs them having their hands up, you know, defending