20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Jul 2023 \ on: Stacker Sports- Meta Takeover-Day 5 meta
More than any rule changes, I just want the NBA to call more of the egregious travelling, carrying, and charges that happen almost every play. The game is getting gross and it slights those who are special enough to do cool stuff within the confines of the rules, i.e. elite ball handlers and those with elite body control.
As for a real rule change, I've come around on the Elam ending for basketball games. No more overtime is a bummer, but the suspense of when that final shot is going to be made will be great.
So you suggest if the game is tied at the end of regulation they just continue and say first team to 10 wins or something like that?
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There are different forms of Elam, but the idea is that there is no particular time when regulation ends. Instead, there will be a target score and the first team to get to it wins. The current proposal is to play the first three quarters like normal and then make the winning score be 24 more than what the leading team currently has.
Most pickup games are Elam style: play to 11 or 21, etc. The benefits are that tedious end of game fouling is disincentivized and by definition every game ends on a game winning shot.
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That would be quite a change. I think they do that in the All star game now, correct?
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They do and it briefly improved the quality of that atrocious game.
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