New Rules will affect Spurs the most

[LakerGod]

Thanks God "offense kills defense"

Now that the NBA is planning to change a couple of rules, the most affected would be the Spurs and its offense.

The NBA is planning to get rid of the 3-point line, the Spurs signed Brent Barry for that reason, without the 3 point line, Barry will be practiclly useless, only in the last 5 minutes of games 3-point shots will be allowed.

The other rule that would affect the Spurs team is about fouls, they won't be able to foul anymore because they would send players to the free throw line, touch fouls, hand-checking, forearms will be called and will result in free throws. The Spurs are foul machines, the new rules will clearly make this team ineffective.

The offense kills the defense, the Spurs better get more offensive players or they will soon be a really bad team

The new rules are being considered right now to increase the offense and decrease the boring defense, something the Spurs have made their official trademark of the last few years.

Thanks God for the new rules, we need to watch fun basketball eliminating the boring defense the Spurs are so good at.

[exstatic]

The NBA is planning to get rid of the 3-point line, the Spurs signed Brent Barry for that reason, without the 3 point line, Barry will be practiclly useless, only in the last 5 minutes of games 3-point shots will be allowed.

Uh, actually that's the NBDL, but you'd better start getting used to their rules. The Lakers will be IN that league in 3 years.

[spursfaninla]

They changed the rules for defense a few years back, too, and it did wonders for stopping defensive teams and raising the scoring average of the league.

:blah

The spurs can score too, by the way. And we don't take that many 3 point shots, really, nor do we have to.

[SpursWoman]

Uh, actually that's the NBDL, but you'd better start getting used to their rules. The Lakers will be IN that league in 3 years.



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[LakerGod]

With the new rules Kobe will score 50 points a game.

Imagine getting fouled time after time after time to try to stop his offense.

[spursfaninla]

Kobe can score as many points as he wants, he can't win the game by himself. The Lakers, other than Kobe and Odom, are no offensive juggernaut themselves, and I doubt they score 50 a piece.

And guess what, the spurs are a very efficient team at scoring, and will do just fine offensively.

Defensively they will still be at the top of the league because they play defense fundamentally. The new rules will not affect them as much as you hope.

The 3 pt line thing is not going to be tried in the NBA this year, and these "new rules" are not new at all, they are going to try to interpret the old rules more tightly. Guess what? When the playoffs come around, the refs will swallow their whistles, like they always do, and if the Lakers even make the playoffs, the refs will not be able to save them.

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[TheWriter]

Kori, isn't spamming and trolling against the rules?

[Kori Ellis]

The NBA is planning to get rid of the 3-point line, the Spurs signed Brent Barry for that reason, without the 3 point line, Barry will be practiclly useless, only in the last 5 minutes of games 3-point shots will be allowed.

The other rule that would affect the Spurs team is about fouls, they won't be able to foul anymore because they would send players to the free throw line, touch fouls, hand-checking, forearms will be called and will result in free throws.

NBA says it has no plans to change 3-point shot despite NBDL experiment

By The Associated Press
Friday, October 15, 2004

NEW YORK -- The NBA has no plans to change its rules for the 3-point shot, though it will proceed with an experiment for its developmental league in which all field goals will be worth 2 points until the final five minutes of regulation and overtime.

"This is a not a rule for consideration in the NBA and has never been discussed by the competition committee," NBA vice president Stu Jackson said Thursday, adding he expects the minor-league NBDL to approve the experiment for the season that begins Nov. 19.

It would be the first time in the NBDL's four-year history that an experimental rules change would be instituted.

"We have a minor league that has proven successful in being a training ground for players, coaches and future administrative staffs, but until now, we haven't utilized it as a potential laboratory for the game in general," Jackson said.

Jackson said data would be reviewed after the NBDL season to assess what impact the rule had on mid-range jumpers, offensive coaching strategies and overall field-goal percentages.

The NBA has had a 3-point shot for baskets made from beyond 23 feet, nine inches (22 feet in the corners) since the 1979-80 season, and the number of attempts has steadily risen over the course of the quarter-century in which the rule has been in effect.

"If you look at the game overall, including the collegiate and high school level since the inception of the 3-point shot, it's being taken with an increasing amount of frequency, which in part has driven shooting percentages south," Jackson said. "The 3 has become a real focal point of offenses, and we would like to turn the clock back and see what the game is like without it and the effect it has."

No rules changes will be in effect for the upcoming NBA season, Jackson said, although referees have been instructed to call fouls on defenders who extend their forearms to impede the progress of offensive players.

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Thanks.

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[ZStomp]

NBA says it has no plans to change 3-point shot despite NBDL experiment

By The Associated Press
Friday, October 15, 2004

NEW YORK -- The NBA has no plans to change its rules for the 3-point shot, though it will proceed with an experiment for its developmental league in which all field goals will be worth 2 points until the final five minutes of regulation and overtime.

"This is a not a rule for consideration in the NBA and has never been discussed by the competition committee," NBA vice president Stu Jackson said Thursday, adding he expects the minor-league NBDL to approve the experiment for the season that begins Nov. 19.

It would be the first time in the NBDL's four-year history that an experimental rules change would be instituted.

"We have a minor league that has proven successful in being a training ground for players, coaches and future administrative staffs, but until now, we haven't utilized it as a potential laboratory for the game in general," Jackson said.

Jackson said data would be reviewed after the NBDL season to assess what impact the rule had on mid-range jumpers, offensive coaching strategies and overall field-goal percentages.

The NBA has had a 3-point shot for baskets made from beyond 23 feet, nine inches (22 feet in the corners) since the 1979-80 season, and the number of attempts has steadily risen over the course of the quarter-century in which the rule has been in effect.

"If you look at the game overall, including the collegiate and high school level since the inception of the 3-point shot, it's being taken with an increasing amount of frequency, which in part has driven shooting percentages south," Jackson said. "The 3 has become a real focal point of offenses, and we would like to turn the clock back and see what the game is like without it and the effect it has."

No rules changes will be in effect for the upcoming NBA season, Jackson said, although referees have been instructed to call fouls on defenders who extend their forearms to impede the progress of offensive players.

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Thanks.

:princess



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[bigzak25]

what's with you and rules buddy....

laker god....touch fouls would ruin the game. kobe's highlights are clutch 3's.....careful what you wish for.....

[Solid D]

I don't think young Laker fan will be responding right away. He may have had to go catch the bus to school.

BTW, the Spurs are one of the more compliant teams in the NBA and they have been for years. They were in the bottom five in the league in PFs, as was Champion Detroit, while Utah is typically up near the top - they finished first last year with more than 25 fouls per game.

[picnroll]

On a side note LakerGod who do you bet will be the first Laker to come out and say they don't want to play with Kobe. My money is on Butler.

[CosmicCowboy]

I do have a major concern about the new rule interpretations...

If they REALLY enforce the touch foul rule it will definitely affect Tim Duncans game...when he is guarding a guy one on one he habitually and automatically uses his left hand on the other guys hip to maintain contact and sense which direction he is going...it's just good basketball if he is not holding or affecting the other guys balance or shot...but if they don't call it 3 games in a row and then call it 3 times in the first quarter of the next one it really gives the refs the ability to alter the outcome of the game...

If you watched the Olympics, that was Tim's biggest problem with the FIBA rule interpretations and why he kept getting into early foul trouble...

[picnroll]

But if you can't touch, grab, hold, maul the offensive player think what would have happened to Malone's defense on Duncan last playoffs.

[CosmicCowboy]

But if you can't touch, grab, hold, maul the offensive player think what would have happened to Malone's defense on Duncan last playoffs.

Malone, like Shaq, Duncan, KG etc. typically gets the superstar latitude in ref calls..and they all take advantage of it to a certain extent...

like I said previously, my problem with the rule interpretation is that is is so subjective and will vary greatly from game to game...and on any given night a ref can knock Tim out of the game if he chooses to...

[Solid D]

Imagine all of the pick-up games on driveways and public courts around the country going to no hand-checking or no hand to the hip...honor system.

I think almost everyone would rather take up another sport or activity than to wave that expectation in front of them.

[JsnSA]

Its not like we don't have the players to play in an up-tempo, offense first system if it came to that.

We play Defense first because that style wins games.

We still have Manu and Parker and D. Brown to go with the faster paced style. NOt that its going to happen much...but we have players capable of that.

[FromWayDowntown]

The NBA is planning to get rid of the 3-point line, the Spurs signed Brent Barry for that reason, without the 3 point line, Barry will be practiclly useless, only in the last 5 minutes of games 3-point shots will be allowed.

Even were the rule change true -- and it's obviously not -- this statement is (not surprisingly) asinine. If you remove the 3 point line, it doesn't mean that shots from longer than 23 feet won't count! It just means they'll only count for 2 points.

[ShoogarBear]

Hey, now there's an idea. Have shots hit from beyond the 3-point line not count for any points!

It'll probably be February before teams like the Blazers figure out how to adjust their offense to that strategy.