Dick Vitale is yapping about changing the rules of college basketball again, undeterred by the fact that the last time they listened to him it was an unmitigated disaster (the season or two when they replaced the alternating possession on a held ball with a “ties go to the defense” rule that proved totally unworkable). This time out, he’s upset that Georgetown lost in the second round, in part because Roy Hibbert got in foul trouble, and he wants to get rid of the rule that disqualifies players after five fouls. He thinks coaches should be able to keep their star players on the floor, and just make fouls six through N two shots and the ball for the other team.<\/p>\n
This is, needless to say, a terrible idea. Vitale and the other idiots promoting this rule point out that basketball is the only major sport in which players are disqualified in the normal course of play. This is true. It’s also the only major sport in which points are scored by passing a round ball through a metal hoop ten feet above the floor– why not change that, while we’re at it? Disqualification for fouling is only one of Naismith’s original 13 rules<\/a>, after all.<\/p>\n Basketball is a team game, and it’s about the success or failure of the team<\/strong>, not any individual star player. Yeah, it sucks when a star player gets a couple of stupid fouls, and ends up sitting, but that’s part of the game. A good team should be able to win even when a star has an off night, and if they can’t find a way to win with their star in foul trouble, then, well, maybe they’re just not as good as you think.<\/p>\n The last thing college basketball needs is to start changing the rules around to make life easier for star players and their coaches. If you want to watch a star-driven game where the rules are all skewed to favor individual stars, just flip the channel– there’s an NBA game on somewhere. Leave college hoops to those of us who enjoy basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dick Vitale is yapping about changing the rules of college basketball again, undeterred by the fact that the last time they listened to him it was an unmitigated disaster (the season or two when they replaced the alternating possession on a held ball with a “ties go to the defense” rule that proved totally unworkable).… Continue reading Basketball Isn’t Broken<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}