Two of the biggest stars in the NBA got hurt on Sunday because of players attempting to take charges. It's not a basketball play. It's a bailout call for the defense. And it needs to go away. Now put your pitchforks away and let talkhoops explain:
In both instances, you have players looking to slide into position at the last second, hoping to con the referee into thinking they were in legal guarding position the entire time to gain the call. By the time Morant is taking off, Davis is still sliding into position. It’s insane to me that this would be rewarded, but I can also recognize it’s a bang-bang play that could go either way on the call.
A lot of these guys are just driving in recklessly, foul hunting, and hoping to get bailed out with a call! Isn’t it hard enough to play defense? You just think it’s cool for players to drive recklessly and be allowed to score? Scoring skyrocketed within a short amount of time, and we eventually got to the positionless, pace-and-space basketball that we mostly see today. The NBA has also allowed illegal screens to get the blind-eye treatment, and we rarely see consistency with that called when it is actually whistled. It’s made playing defense almost impossible in this era. I don’t want to get rid of one more tool for the defense.
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