On the way home from class today I started to wonder why Basketball did not appeal to me. To answer this I thought why other people like the sport. The main reason i could think of is that there is momentum shifts that cause one team to scare alot of points in a row, thus making a game where one team has a big lead and then the momentum switches and the other team closes the gap. So then i asked myself why i wasn't intrigued by this aspect of the game. "good question" i thought.
I think the reason basketball momentum shifts dont appeal to me is because points don't really matter that much and lacrosse does the momentum shift excitementtype of game much better. So then i got to thinking what would make it so that basketball would be more interesting to me. All of a sudden i though of one rule that would change the face of basketball and take it from a boring showboating game to a nail biting, momentum shifting, awesomeness game:
A team that scores gets to inbound the ball.
That simple rule would make basketball a much much better game. This is because the important thing in the game would be the possession, and not just a one off dunk. Teams could get on 20 or so point runs, and fouls are very pivotal. That one rule change would make the game great. Then i got to thinking, you know what else it would fix? The craptacular boring endings that quasi close games have (ie foul, foul, foul, etc...). Because you wouldn't want to foul since you won't get the ball back.
Really that one rule change solves most of the problems with basketball, don't you think?
I go eat some food now.
4 comments:
Didn't basketball used to involve less or no running?
well back in the day if you had the ball you had to dribble... now i think you can get 8 steps if you look like you might be doing something cool...
OK, Basketball haters.....you guys can make up all the contrived rules you want.
But for the 150 million of us who were glued to our TV sets for the NCAA Tourney these last three weeks, we don't want to change a thing!!
(Okay, maybe a few things here and there, but this would change the game almost completely, and this is a change almost no one wants. Sorry)
This would completely destroy the transition game, arguably the best aspect of the game. The transition game yields high scoring and lots of dunks. OK, OK, OK...you're saying, "Big Deal." Well, hey, it puts butts in the seats, and as a fan, that's the way I like my basketball.
The NHL could learn a thing or two from Basketball.
--Lance
p.s. Up until 1937, they had a center jump after every made basket (not unlike a center face-off after every made goal).
gotcha.
ya hear that NHL? Call penalties when arms cross or there is an illegal defense, like they do in basketball.
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