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The NBA really wants Lebron to win a title. By John Nguyen
10.20.2009 - Updated on 10.20.2009
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Here’s the new rule: "A player who receives the ball while he is progressing or upon completion of a dribble, may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball."
All I got to say is “WOW.” The power of the crab dribble is deadly. Why in the hell are they doing this? Why? I’m shaking my freaking head here. They already get away with plenty before this. Now they’re letting them get away with more? This is unprecedented. It’s this just another tactic to increase scoring? Who cares! There’s plenty of scoring to go around. WTF? I can’t tell even tell what’s traveling or not. Is this even basketball anymore? We really want to know. This is not helping basketball.
This is actually ruining the game.
Let’s look at this way. In California, the legal speed limit on a freeway is 65. People normally go 80. Before the speed limit was raised to 65, it used to be 55. People were going 65-70. Let’s apply this to the NBA. They raised the limit of footsies. Now they’re going to take 3-4 steps without a blink of an eye. Since the league is actually implementing this, what about the college, high school, and intramural levels? Do they make the change, too? This is not a simple difference in goaltending between the USA and International play. This limit raise is a drastic change.
We’re not playing the same game anymore. It’s not just NBA versus the world. This is the NBA versus the rest of America. This is actually a huge shift; one that is ridiculous. This is done to increase scoring? Are you for real, man? You shortened the three point line and then you brought it back out. You took away hand checking. You took away chin ups on rims. You took away slapping the backboard. You took away hanging on the rim after a dunk. You tried to implement a new type of basketball. You took away taunting and showing emotion. Then the committee does this? What else do you guys have?
Hey. Here’s an idea. Dress me up as a douche bag in a suit with a Bluetooth sitting in one of these meetings. I’ll just bring an old VHS tape of MTV’s Rock N Jock basketball. We can have trades on the spot during the game. We can switch jerseys. Have old Hall of Famers be the referees. Have double rims. We can also have 10 pointers spot designations around the court for the likes of Stephen Curry and Antoine Walker.
Be real.
When NBA talent plays against international competition, we’ll do the two step thing out there. Those referees are very strict and we’ll get penalized every time. They’re not going to change their rules because the NBA changed the rules. We can’t think like that because that is stupid. The NBA players’ mentality will grow accustomed to this new rule and bring it over to Olympic play.
It’s going to be tough to break this habit. I guess we want Kobe, Lebron, Melo, Durant, and Wade to score 100 points in a game so badly. If Lebron can’t score 100 with this new rule, I’m going to be pissed off.
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Posted by
Ken
on 10.22.2009 | I agree, why change a rule like that that’s been around for so long? Has anyone evercomplained about not being able to take enough steps? I have no idea what the reasoning behind this was, hope they retract it like they did with the "new" ball . | Posted by
brandon
on 10.21.2009 | David Stern is horrible he should be fired. He tried to take emotion out of the game, cant keep good refs, and puts rules into the game thats goin to ruin it. . | Posted by
French MVP
on 10.21.2009 | Good to see you writing again man, tired of Oly stuffs...Needs to go deeper like you tryna do. Keep rolling. . | Posted by
32
on 10.21.2009 | Is this a joke? You have a whole page of articles and they are all a disgrace! . | Posted by
ZZzZz
on 10.20.2009 | I agree it is a stupid rule but picking on Walker who isn’t even in the league anymore is pretty low. If you are as up on the sport as your claim you could have chosen several names and not used pa-------bias to whine . | Posted by
kobe fan
on 10.20.2009 | kobe got his rings by playing by the rules. LeBron cant so they changes th rules so he has a better chance of wining... i think we know who is better. . | Posted by
32
on 10.20.2009 | This was a ridiculous change, and seems to be directly related to Lebron’s incident. I agree with you, that the NBA obviously wants him to win a title. But, I don’t think they have as much control as they think. I thought it was going to be set-up for a Lebron vs. Kobe final last year, and it didn’t happen. I’m looking forward to this year, where I really think any of the top 8 teams have a shot at the chip. . | Posted by
LAkers 2 in a row
on 10.20.2009 | I totally agree with the league trying to get lebron a championship  however the game is always evolving when the new 3 point line was introduced everyone thought it would be harder and so on but players jst evolved their game, again this might be a bit different because its one of the basic rules ie travelling but in a few years everyone will take it as standard. Good article man . | Posted by
ronh
on 10.20.2009 | This is definitly true david stern and the rest of the league would love nothing more than to give LeBron the championship bunch of a-------kissers. . |
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