Major League Baseball to add three "challenges" for instant replay per game

[Kidd K]

Time for the NBA to step the fuck up and add it in too? That'll make both the NFL and MLB who have challenges. Now the NBA will be the only one of the big three major sports to not have it.

I'd would like to see challenges added to the NBA too. Two per half and maybe an extra one during the last few minutes of the game (and one additional challenge for each OT) would be fair imo.

Would anyone else like challenges to be added? If so, would you like it to apply to any play, perhaps even including "non calls"? Or should it be restricted only to whistles that were blown?

[DMC]

I challenge you to shut the fuck up.

[Kidd K]

Weren't you supposed to leave? Lying faggot.

[monosylab1k]

Refs already review everything in the last 2 minutes, and basketball isn't like football or baseball where one blown call early on could screw your team over completely. Maybe if the head coach was only allowed to challenge fouls that they think were caused by flops. That way floppers can be penalized in-game and can be shamed into stopping when their flops get reviewed and replayed on the big screen continuously for 3 minutes.

[Kidd K]

They only review specific kinds of calls late though (out of bounds plays, 3pt shot or not, minor stuff), not everything.

With challenges you could possibly challenge blown calls like failure to call 5 second violations, failure to call goaltends, bad charge calls where your guy was actually standing still, rip through fouls getting called, travels, and other things that don't get reviewed now.

I agree that single calls usually don't entirely destroy a game since there are so many plays per game, but they can definitely add up and make it a lot more difficult to get a win if they're blowing calls that change momentum. I think it could make a huge impact and relieve a lot of complaining people have about the refs.

[spurraider21]

Weren't you supposed to leave? Lying faggot.

:lol dramatic goodbye
:lol i didn't really mean it :cry

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Never been wild about the idea. The reason basketball appeals to me more than football or baseball is that there's a real flow to the game. Honestly with TV timeouts and what seems like a monster uptick in free throws in general that whole aspect feels like it's eroded a little in the past years despite the league's attempts to up the tempo and scoring. As it is I want to throw something at the screen every time the whole game shuts down for 2 minutes while the refs have to stop and debate a goddamn clear path foul (usually culminating in more free throws. It's Faaaaaaaaaaaaan-tastic!). They found a fairly unobtrusive way to correct blown calls on what is and isn't a three pointer, that's fine. But reviewing for fouls would be a whole different can of worms. They'd either need to stop the action right then and there to answer the challenge (zzzzzzzzzzz......) or they do like the 3 pointers and wait until the next extended stoppage to assess it, which potentially could lead to a situation where a key player could be involved in a play where there's a no call. Maybe he goes on a big one man show sort of run where he puts in 10 points in the span of 90 seconds and then at the end of the quarter we discover, oh he should have had a third foul called-likely resulting in his coach pulling him from the game. Or a situation where a guy is involved in a no call, then takes what he thought was his 2nd foul to prevent an easy dunk, only to discover as we come back from the TV break that he now has three.

Yes, bad calls impact the game. The problem with basketball is that with the way the game is designed intrusive efforts to correct those bad calls can impact the game just as negatively by completely fucking with the flow of the game.

[DMC]

:lol dramatic goodbye
:lol i didn't really mean it :cry

Did you really find it dramatic?

[ElNono]

I challenge you to shut the fuck up.