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Title: Illegal defense legalized?
Post by: Fatty on April 01, 2001, 12:41:00 PM

Whatcha think?  I always hated it, it's a serious detriment to team play.  Of course if you're looking for huge numbers for one player it's a good thing, but if you want to see good solid passing/motion/5 player offense, imo illegal defense is killing it.

Title: Illegal defense legalized?
Post by: Sandman_SBM on April 01, 2001, 01:17:00 PM

Are we talking NFL?

Title: Illegal defense legalized?
Post by: Fatty on April 01, 2001, 06:33:00 PM

Heh, nope, it's among the rule changes the NBA is considering.

Edit explaination for non NBAphiles: In the current rules, you MUST play man on man defense.  You can double team the ball handler, but unless you're going after the ball handler you must cover a specific man and with no help. (Zones, shifting defenses typical to what gets called for illegal defense)

[This message has been edited by Fatty (edited 04-01-2001).]

Title: Illegal defense legalized?
Post by: Raubvogel on April 01, 2001, 09:03:00 PM

I always thought it was a crappy rule. Whether it makes gameplay more interesting or not remains to be seen. Hopefully it will make good teamplay more profitable than the current trend towards "Iversonism."  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: Illegal defense legalized?
Post by: Raubvogel on April 01, 2001, 11:01:00 PM

Another thing that caught my attention was the new 3 second rule for defenders. I think it's a great idea. Now Shaq won't be able to park his huge bellybutton under the rim the whole game. Should encourage more penetration and some nice highlight reels  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)