Top 10 GOAT: It's Basketball, not basket strategy

[HOoopCityJones]

Shaq

[J Shuttlesworth]

Agreed. They need to find a way to prevent the hack a shaq type shit. Honestly, it slows the momentum for both teams, and probably makes a lot of fans want to change the channel

[PejaTheSerbSnip]

It's dreadful, no doubt.

But those are the repercussions of not being able to shoot a 15 foot, unguarded shot when you're given all the time in the world.

Players flaws should be exploited if they're that glaring. The solution? Work on said glaring flaws.

[LONGTIME]

Shaq "not everybody can be a great shooter...65, 70% free throw shooters..."

[ILLsmak]

It's dreadful, no doubt.

But those are the repercussions of not being able to shoot a 15 foot, unguarded shot when you're given all the time in the world.

Players flaws should be exploited if they're that glaring. The solution? Work on said glaring flaws.

Who says you should be able to shoot? There's no way to make a big man dribble. There's no way to force a little guy to get in the paint.

That's not a good way of thinking. Basically, you see that people are exploiting a flaw and believe that all flaws should be exploited. Maybe they should, but they can't be... so why free throw shooting?

I think some of those guys are so bad that shooting 50% from the line, especially after getting tired and banging with everyone, is the best they can do. I don't believe everyone has it in them to 'get better.'

Intentional fouling in general is wack. If you do an obvious intentional foul they should either get 2 and the ball or get to choose the shooter. That whole gimmick was to extend games and add more commercials. It's even worse than hack-a-shaq to watch it at the end of every game.

-Smak

[PejaTheSerbSnip]

Who says you should be able to shoot? There's no way to make a big man dribble. There's no way to force a little guy to get in the paint.

That's not a good way of thinking. Basically, you see that people are exploiting a flaw and believe that all flaws should be exploited. Maybe they should, but they can't be... so why free throw shooting?

I think some of those guys are so bad that shooting 50% from the line, especially after getting tired and banging with everyone, is the best they can do. I don't believe everyone has it in them to 'get better.'

Intentional fouling in general is wack. If you do an obvious intentional foul they should either get 2 and the ball or get to choose the shooter. That whole gimmick was to extend games and add more commercials. It's even worse than hack-a-shaq to watch it at the end of every game.

-Smak

Differences of opinion then I guess.

I just believe that if you're historically bad at something, it should get exposed. Or at least, it shouldn't be such a hotly contested issue, that a guy who barely makes 4/10 free throws is gonna get put to the line.

[T_L_P]

Simple solution: improve at the line or take the poor FT shooter out of the game.

[LONGTIME]

Simple solution: improve at the line or take the poor FT shooter out of the game.

Common sense.

[Spurs5Rings2014]

Common sense.

[Genaro]

As a Laker fan it was horrible to see Dwight shooting the Lakers out of games with his FTs but I don't see how you can make a rule to benefit guys who suck at the line. If someone is that bad that he can't make a open shot 70% of his attempts he should work on it or be taken off.

[L.Kizzle]

Hey Shaq, when you're team is down 4 points with 31 seconds left and the opposing team has the ball, do you foul or play 24 seconds of good defense?

[dunksby]

Shaq would have scored 2400 more points if he was a 70% career FT shooter, equivalent of a 30 PPG season, and that's only counting RS.

[ZenMaster]

As a Laker fan it was horrible to see Dwight shooting the Lakers out of games with his FTs but I don't see how you can make a rule to benefit guys who suck at the line. If someone is that bad that he can't make a open shot 70% of his attempts he should work on it or be taken off.

That's one point of view. Another is that comitting a foul should be something that the player/team doing it is punished for, not the opposition. Comitting a foul is by definition doing something against the rules of basketball and thereby it was not originally meant to work in your favor.

[Sakkreth]

Agreed. They need to find a way to prevent the hack a shaq type shit. Honestly, it slows the momentum for both teams, and probably makes a lot of fans want to change the channel

Disagreed, it's basketball so learn to shoot god damn basketball.

[dunksby]

That's one point of view. Another is that comitting a foul should be something that the player/team doing it is punished for, not the opposition. Comitting a foul is by definition doing something against the rules of basketball and thereby it was not originally meant to work in your favor.

They are punished as they get in foul trouble, risk fouling out, and let's not forget putting the opposition in the bonus. Now it's up to the opposition to actually punish the fouling team. FT shooting is part of basketball, it's not anybody's fault but the lazy ass player who never worked on it.