Hack a Shaq rule is dumb

The refs fricked it up too. 6ers got the foul in before the time dropped under 2 mins

Learn to shoot free throws. Problem solved

I remember when Dale Brown finally snapped about it and told Shaq to start punishing SEC centers and forwards. I remember Robert Horry backing up and letting Shaq dunk. I’m not taking an elbow to the face from Shaq.

As to the OP, I could live with your rule.

Not a good rule proposal. The only reason a team ever chooses its free throw shooter is because they’re awarded a free throw when no one was fouled, so they have to choose a shooter.

Hacka-_____ doesn’t happen enough to warrant a rule change, but if it did, you could allow a team to turn a free thrown into an inbound in exchange for a timeout.

Sure it does. If you have two players jostling for position in the post and the defender pulls the offense player back, would you also let the team choose who gets to shoot the 1 and 1? It was the post player who was prevented from establishing scoring position, so it should be the post player who shoots the free throws.

Fouls happen away from the ball all the time and it’s always the player who gets fouled who shoots the free throws. Why should now be any different? To protect bad free throw shooters from having to learn a key component of the game? That makes zero sense.

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It makes no sense for a player who doesn’t have the ball to have to shoot the free throws.

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The player who is fouled is rewarded with free throws.

Can’t make much more sense than that.

And I’m saying that it’s no more “shenanigans” than is intentionally fouling when down 3 with 20 seconds left. Sometimes it makes sense to intentionally foul. We shouldn’t change that for the sake of protecting mediocre skill sets