Put the game in the hands of the players and coaches . If they want to foul and take a chance the guy misses ...why not .....only a few players are so bad it is habit to foul them.
We don't want to put more the of the game I. The hands of the ref than they already have . Too many gray area calls as it is.
It will only cause more arguments and bad feelings at the end of games than the few game that Howard and Jordon and Drummond play in.
They can learn to shoot free throws like everybody else
Or the. Let's give Guys under 6 ft tall a special rule ......it's harder for them to dunk .....no one is allowed to interfer with their drives to basket and foul them INTENTIONALLY to stop a score .
Your making up rules for giant guys who can't or wo 't practice free throws. .....and it's just a few to boot......this is the craziest thing I heard .
first off, not all giant guys who cant shoot free throws do so by choice or lack of effort. wilt chamberlain put in a LOT of time and money practicing. he stunk at it.
in this case, the problem may be the rule as they are currently written. some posters write as if rules come from above and are divine laws beyond the realm of the mundane and immutable. no. all rules in basketball are arbitrary and created by people to achieve one goal...make the game of basketball playable and entertaining. THAT is why they exist.
i posted once before about how basketball, and other sports, had to change some of their rules since some players/teams simply were too good and their abilities diminished the overall game for everyone else. (in the nba players cannot dunk their free throws. why? wilt could do it. so to accommodate those lesser players who couldnt, and to save the game, rule changes were made.)
while not the same as the above in that we are now talking about a lack of ability, the argument should really revolve around the impact of a rule on the game.
to be honest, keeping the current option to foul bad free throw shooters makes for one one
Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.ty viewing experience by many fans, including me. cripes, how many games in the nba today devolve into foul-and-ft endings? i, for one, dont find that entertaining. the game switches from one of speed and skill to blunt, grunt fouling followed by tedious fts.
if changing the rule makes basketball as a sport and event BETTER, then the leadership SHOULD change the rules. the authors of the current rule did NOT intend "jumping on other players' backs" to be the result of this rule change they made years ago.
the rule was written originally by people to improve the game. but it is not doing so.
i have no trouble changing the rule to improve the game. but be forewarned, in the future other coaches may find ways to circumvent these changes as well.