OT: No thread on NBA revisiting 'Hack-A-Shaq'

[Infinite_limit]

What a load of crap. Association protecting it's precious athletes that can't shoot.

[lefty]

Lol today's nba

Soft pussies

[spurraider21]

the NBA could fix this rule by having a minimum FT% requirement/quota

[daslicer]

I think the NBA is just saying it for good publicity to silence the ing for now. I have heard to change the rule the NBA would need a super majority to vote in favor of it. I honestly don't think its going to happen.

[unforeseen]

Non-issue

[Clipper Nation]

I still don't understand the fake controversy over this. "Hack-a-Shaq" is a desperate gamble for the team deploying it, and it rarely ever works as intended. I get that the idea is to get the opposing offense out of a rhythm, but by removing any flow from the game, it also gets the team doing the hacking out of a rhythm. All a rule change would do is protect ty free throw shooters and ty desperate coaches, and I don't see how that's good for the sport.

[davethedope]

idgaf what they do but it should officially be known as "Hack-a-Shaq" instead of all this bull , hack-a-jordan, or whomever.

Point is "Shaq" is a first name, so it should be, always... "Hack-a-DeAndre" or whomever, using the first name as a part of the phrase.

If the announcers aren't going to follow the grammatical protocol, then just say "Hack-a-Shaq" or shut the up.

[m>s]

How could they ban it when people will just do it less obviously and say it wasn't intentional

[UZER]

How could they ban it when people will just do it less obviously and say it wasn't intentional

yup. They are gonna force players to foul hard, and you know that's gonna escalate.

[024]

It really isn't a debate on whether it is a legitimate strategy or not. The main point is that it turns off casual viewers by disrupting the flow of the game. If the opponents can frame their case on the $$$ lost, there will be more owners willing to change the rule.

[baseline bum]

I still don't understand the fake controversy over this. "Hack-a-Shaq" is a desperate gamble for the team deploying it, and it rarely ever works as intended. I get that the idea is to get the opposing offense out of a rhythm, but by removing any flow from the game, it also gets the team doing the hacking out of a rhythm. All a rule change would do is protect ty free throw shooters and ty desperate coaches, and I don't see how that's good for the sport.

I have seen it work really well three times in Spurs playoff matchups: Don Nelson did it to Bruce Bowen in Game 1 of the 03 WCF to cool off a hot Spurs offense and steal an ugly win. Scott Brooks did it to Splitter in Games 2 and 3 of the 2012 WCF and Splitter was useless the rest of the series. And the Spurs did it to Shaq in the 2008 first round and outed them in five.

[KaiRMD1]

Tiago should be the poster boy for hack-a-shaq improvement. The year after they did it to him, old sport went and practiced his free throws. Now? Almost always automatic

[Jacob1983]

I don't like soft ass .

[Xevious]

The only rule change should be to suspend the player without pay that can't hit 50% of their FTs. These ers make way too much money to not work on something as fundamental as a free throw.

[Jacob1983]

I think people are just ing because the Spurs used it on Jordan in game 2 and it worked. That guy sucks ass at free throws.

[z0sa]

The only rule change should be to suspend the player without pay that can't hit 50% of their FTs. These ers make way too much money to not work on something as fundamental as a free throw.

Honestly it's the other team's fans who should be outraged - they are the one paying their salaries. Stop asking for rule changes and start demanding your players shoot above 50% from the line, minimum.

[mercos]

As boring as Hack-A-Shaq is to watch, getting rid of it would be a weak move by the NBA. Make the players get better. There is simply no excuse for a professional basketball player being so bad at one of the easiest aspects of the game. It is a FREE throw. If they get rid of Hack-A-Shaq for entertainment purposes, they should also get rid of preferential superstar treatment that leads to players like James Harden and Kevin Durant getting 10 free throws a game. Free throws are boring whether the player makes or misses them.

[ambchang]

Free throws is the only aspect in basketball that I can say I am better at than any NBA player.

[Monostradamus]

Free throws is the only aspect in basketball that I can say I am better at than any NBA player.

so you're saying you could make over 90% of your free throws in front of 15,000+ people every night for 82 games?

[cd021]

Bill Simmons had a good idea. If a team fouls another team 10 times in a quarter then they take 3 free throws for every subsequent foul.

[Monostradamus]

Bill Simmons had a good idea. If a team fouls another team 10 times in a quarter then they take 3 free throws for every subsequent foul.

If they were to make a rule, I'd rather they give the team the option to decline the free throws and keep possession of the ball.

[TheCultOfPersonality]

I don't think their should be a rule change at all. Just make your make your free throws for pete's sake.

[ambchang]

so you're saying you could make over 90% of your free throws in front of 15,000+ people every night for 82 games?

Any, not every.

[Monostradamus]

Any, not every.

Do you need English lessons? If you walked in front of a room of NBA players and said "I'm better than any of you at shooting free throws" how would they interpret that?

[ambchang]

Do you need English lessons? If you walked in front of a room of NBA players and said "I'm better than any of you at shooting free throws" how would they interpret that?

Can't tell the difference between any and every
using two different sentence structures to make a point
using NBA players as a standard of literacy
worse in English than an ESL student