Needed college basketball rule changes.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

The safety part is so that they will stop allowing defenders to cheaply get contact and either have nothing called or prevent players from being willing to go hard to the basket. Of course the safety part was to open up the basket area. And I see players all the time get out of the way in order not to get a silly foul. I think the rule accomplished what they wanted it to.

Peace

I just don't get how anyone thinks that blocking an offensive player's path to where they want to shoot the ball is a cheap foul. That, to me, is the fundamental meaning of defense. If the offense chooses to continue through that spot anyway, they should be held responsible.

Of course, the NCAA (and NBA) redefined a basic fundamental of the game more to open up scoring under the guise of safety (regardless of what they say) instead of having officials call the rules that were in place which would have equally (perhaps more even more so) affected safety. I call it that way in an NCAA game, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.