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re: Good ways to end "Hack-a-Shaq"...

Posted on 4/25/15 at 1:09 pm to
Posted by Lester Earl
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Posted on 4/25/15 at 1:09 pm to
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The point of penalties in sports is to deter an action with as un-severe of consequences as possible. As it is now, the penalty is obviously not enough of a deterrent since this is still happening, and the proposed fix successfully deters it without adding additional unneeded penalties on the fouling team.




You can't really look at it like that. The player still gets 2 FT's. To assume the absolute worst is not fair to the rule.
Posted by TallMan
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 4/25/15 at 1:18 pm to
But what's wrong with them giving the team the choice if they feel like the FTs aren't enough of a penalty and their alternative is to just continiing playing the sport? Declining the FTs and playing basketball instead obviously isn't too severe of a penalty. (I like freedom and choice as long as I'm not unduly imposing on others in all walks of life...)
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