A) because it encourages play contradictory to the spirit of the game / skills (ie basketball should be about passing shooting etc and not relying on a soft penalty so you can make an illegal play to compensate for not being able to make a play outright) / etc
B) from a games perspective, a game where you can often break the rules and get away with it probably sucks

That's the joke

Re A - in football if a corner is out of position and hacks a receiver the receiver gets the yardage on pass interference. In basketball if a defender can't block a layup he can hack the shooter and nothing happens unless it's already happened 5 times and the guy still has to drain two free throws to break even.

I by no means think basketball is a perfect sport, but I think the idea of having a play style not 100% tied exactly to the rule book is totally fine. It's like speed limits. If they wanted people to drive 65 on the highway, they would either put the speed limit as 55 or care more about going 10 mph over. Not saying that's a system we should be aspiring towards, I'm just saying it's a system that does a good job of accomplishing something specific in a roundabout way.

Your main point also seems contradictory. I think you're referring to say driving to the hoop looking for a foul instead of making a good offensive play. Shouldn't the penalty for the foul then be LESS (in order to dissuade the offense from relying on it)? Personally I've always felt this way - that if they gave the defense a bit more leeway, maybe we'd see better and more creative play calling from offenses.

This discussion is awful.

btm,

Any super hot girls who give the best blowjobs ever who just want to do it too often, or other similar life problems, lately?

Nah, she's good. I still see BJQueen regularly as she is the lowest of low maintenance girls imaginable. All other girls have been tossed out the window and I'm trying to go on fewer first dates.

I only went on 2 first dates in July! One was megateds at the beginning of July and she turned out to be a nutcase. The 2nd was 2 days ago and she was pretty cool. May see next week.

Lots of other girls up in the air that I'm talking to but nothing substantial to report.

Well I don't really know enough to say if offensive players have the ability to generate fouls. I thought those generally became offensive fouls. My point is mainly wrt defensive fouls anyway. I don't think any players rely on drawing a defensive foul because they can't make a layup or whatever.

For the record not saying it should be more or less strict, its just stupid as is.

The EV of the play without the foul in both cases is probably close to the result of the foul. In football the receiver could score a TD or at least get extra yards - he's given the minimum number of yards.

That's still miles better than free throws though wrt the edge the defender gets by making the infraction. Receiver also doesn't get the chance to drop the ball etc.

there's a lot of extra EV for the offense per foul you aren't accounting for here bixby. Yes, fouls at the rim are often +EV for the defense for that particular play (though soft fouls on good players end up being -EV due to 3pt play value), but getting defenses in the bonus, getting fouls on rim protectors, etc become huge advantages for the offense in the long run.

Think youre reading way too far into this. Girl in his building has a single friend, she knows BTM is single and thinks he is cute and is a normal person. Friends him on FB so she can show her friend. Doubt her friend had to ask for it first and think its pretty common to want to see the person you are being set up with.

This is incorrect. If you foul when the person is shooting you get free throws automatically. The team foul count comes in to play on non-shooting fouls.

It's easy to not understand and irrationally hate rules for a sport you don't like. But arguing about it ITT is not forgiveable. Where is the AidanBanHammer coming down on Bixby?

That seems highly unlikely ...

Oh man, George of the jungle throwback

FYI Chicago is GOAT city. All hail DT. Btw DT let me know if you wanna get beers.

Your recent assessments ITT tell me all I need to know about how seriously this claim needs to be taken.

PM me when you go to Revolution or if you know when you're going and I'll try to make it.

Chicago is an urban death maze. I turned down a six figure job offer from DT to manage his diamond mine because I would have had to relocate there.

Does the 6 figure offer include decimal places? Asking for a friend.

no, but it was in Roubles

CrunchyBlack can't watch or he has to pay extra.

Not Francs?