re: Is there anything worse than the last 30 seconds in basketball?

Basketball has the worst rules as it relates to fouls at the end of the game of any sport in existence.

It's easily the stupidest game in the entire world of sport on this front.

"Hey look.......I broke the rules which.......somehow advantages ME!!!"

It’s call strategy. That’s the great thing about our three major team sports. Football, basketball, baseball. Their more strategic than other team sports. In soccer the first team that scores wins over 60 percent of the time. 2-0 at the half, closer to 100 percent. Absolutely nothing wrong with basketball. The real beautiful game.

The Elam Ending is the way to go. People just need the guts to change things.

Here’s how it works: at the first stoppage of play under three (or four for NCAA) minutes, you add a “target score” of 7 points to the leading team’s score. The clock disappears. First team to that score wins. It’s “normal” basketball all the way to the end.

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So if LSU is beating Kentucky 78-74 with 3:15 on the clock and Will Wade calls a time out, the clock disappears and the first team to 85 wins. It would not be impossible for Kentucky to come back, but would be highly probable that LSU would win. No foul-fest at the end. Still plenty of potential for drama and excitement.

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I think it's fine but sometimes they need to call intentional fouls, because they won't go for the ball like their supposed to.

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This is the entirety of the issue. They don’t call intentional fouls in cases where it is obviously an intentional foul.

Just cancer

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So one team is just supposed to give up if they still have a chance to win?

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They need to change the rules where fouling in the last 1-2 minutes comes with a much more serious penalty. It is annoying and it is unwatchable. A game that looks like it will last a normal amount of time is suddenly 30 minutes longer. I think regardless of how many time outs a team has used so far, each should get knocked down to just 2, one of those being a 30 second, at the 2 minute mark.

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Football is the exact same way.

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Actually football has altered penalty rules to limit some clock stoppage, with auto run-offs, etc.
I think BB would benefit also from changing some rules where committing penalties is beneficial to the offending team, normally near end of periods.

All fouls by the losing team in last 90 seconds except for shooting fouls are intentional and should be counted as such with ball returned to possession of leading team after the 2 shots.

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So you want to make it damn near impossible to come back by fouling. Getting, what should be a free 2 points, is plenty of an advantage don't you think?

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FIFY.
I said a choice between 1+1 and inbounds. I see no reason for the situation to be advantageous to the team committing the foul.

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But the other rules are mainly done BEFORE the final few minutes, like a running clock even on out of bounds plays.

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C'mon man, that has nothing to do with fouling and is about squeezing in more commercials.