Stopping hack a shaq

Making it optional doesn't force you to decline free throws. It would actually give you a lot more strategy. Not sure why I have to shoot just because the opponent errors.

It's not pretect. It's allowing the team to pick their advantage due to your error. Do I take 2 free shots or chew clock? Either way u fricked yo not me. Sorry bro.

Your hoop is made by Fischer price tho :)

Depending on the situation not so fast.

Please remind me of how many Final Fours Shaq (and others such as Chris Jackson, Stanley Roberts, Vernel Singleton, Clarence Caesar, etc) went to?

I want to remind you but you would probably forget again.

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BC then you could put any huge body out there without having to accept risk

How about these players learn to fricking shoot. This is baskeball

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I am of three minds. On the one hand, learn to shoot!!

On the other hand, penalties are meant to penalize and deter. This is a loophole that can give a slight statistical advantage to the person committing the foul. Which is kind of backwards.

Thirdly, as Silver has said, the game has to consider how aspects of the game affect the entertainment value. Few people like watching 15 minutes of drawn out hack-a-shaq and the usage rate of the strategy has been steadily climbing. Though I am one of the weird people who kinda like the strategy aspect that it brings to the game. Plus it has gave us classic moments like this:
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What do you do at the end of games when your down and have to foul? The team leading would never give up possession?

That actually might eliminate the purposely fouling at the end of the game if you can elect to keep it. That's actually a more interesting reason than stopping the hack a shack strategy which would actually rarely be used.