Cody Webster
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Fouls are a free trip to the line. Simmons is a star. Stars should be expected to hit free throws just as a bench player should. If the shoe was on the other foot you would be fine with it
Simmons acting like he's was 40/40 from the line....dude, you were like 50%.
Look. I get it. The game becomes sloppy and disjointed but free throws are an individual skill set open to be tested as a viable strategy. it might stop the flow of team offense but what youre doing in essence is isolating a certain player's deficiency in a certain area and trying to exploit it.I honestly wouldn’t be fine with it. If the guy has the ball, fine. But there’s no real logic to giving a guy away from the ball FTs.
Maybe not close but he was like I don't mind them fouling me all the time, I'll just keep making them. He made half of them.Not even close to what he actually said.
Maybe not close but he was like I don't mind them fouling me all the time, I'll just keep making them. He made half of them.
Look. I get it. The game becomes sloppy and disjointed but free throws are an individual skill set open to be tested as a viable strategy. it might stop the flow of team offense but what youre doing in essence is isolating a certain player's deficiency in a certain area and trying to exploit it.
Marcus Smart shoots 29% from 3? Sag off him until he proves he can hit. Curry is a weak link on defense? Isolate him in the pick and roll and foce him to play D. Ben Simmons shoots a low percentage from the line? Foul him and force him to hit.
The only difference is one skill stops the flow of play, yet all these strategies are built on the same principle and should be weighted as such imo.
In the same way that a huge part of Embiid's game is drawing fouls which effect how a team's big rotation plays throughout a game intentional fouling is the flipside of the same coin.
Coach Lynum believes the league will probably crack down on the hacking strategy the Wizards just employed....
You didn't refute anything I said. I never said the rule was perfect. I'm of the opinion though that in the same way bad shooters and bad defenders find themselves isolated in specific situations bad free throw shooters are fair game to be isolated and forced to prove themselves as wel
If it makes the game less enjoyable, the NBA will do something about it.
But what? Hard to figure what could be an extra punishment for a foul away from the ball. Maybe shots and the ball.
I feel like im misunderstanding you. Please post the rule as to what's illegal. And once again you didn't refute a thing I said. Every player on the floor is beholden to the same set of skills. Some do things better than others. Isolation of particular players skillsets is an integral part of any NBA gameplan. The only thing different about intentional fouling is it makes for bad tv.
LeBron is great because he can everything well. Okafor isn't because he can only do one thing well. If Okafor is out there he's expected to play defense just as much as he is expected to score. Okafor's coach would put him in a position to use his post scoring skills as a way of maximizing his impact. An opposing coach would isolate Okafor on the block defensively to take advantage of his defensive shortcomings.
The same principle applies to Simmons with free throws. Teams will sag off of him in the halfcourt in the hopes he'll shoot it and they'll foul him until he proves he can hurt them from the line. If a guy is atrocious at one aspect of the game then it should be open for the other team to exploit that within the rules. Just like bad defense, just like poor range shooting, just like lack of size, free throw shooting is an attribute to which EVERY NBA player is beholden.