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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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Originally posted by Pirate
O.K., I'll chip in here, even though it's been a week or so since this thread was posted. I would have to say that one of the dumbest rules in basketball is requiring the defensive rebounders on a free throw to occupy the low spots below the block. That is a lousy rebounding angle for the defense, which is supposed to have the advantage in this situation.
I would remove this area as a legal spot on FT's and move everyone up one spot. In other words, the lowest spots on the FT occupied by the defense would be the lane spot ABOVE the block. The fourth slot would of course now be legal if we stay with the current NFHS mechanic.
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I disagree with Pirate's implication that the defense does not have an advantage. The numbers from last year, IIRC, have the defenders getting over 80% of the rebounds on FTs. With this year's change of only allowing two offensive players only the lane, those percentage will certainly go up. This certainly appears that the defense has a distinct advantage on FTs. If we really want to go any further, we should simply remove every one from the lane and give it to them OOB on a make or a miss (and I'm not advocating that).
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
It's a lousy angle when the players can't enter the lane until the ball hits the rim.
I think we should remove THAT rule and make rebounding more about positioning and technique (boxing out) again and less about which way the ball happens to bounce.
Rich
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The problem with that is that a majority of officials were not calling it correctly: contact (rough play) that should have been a foul was routinely ignored. There was a lot of shoving and pushing with no calls. They gave up on getting the officials to make the call and eliminated the situation.
The only advantage to the defense in going in on the release is that they have more time to push the offensive player away from the basket.