Young frustrated with new rules changes
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:25 pm
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The AthleticJohn Hollinger wrote:...after a two-decade march toward increasing offense, the defenses — with an assist from the refs — have finally struck back. One wonders if the league’s refs have actually over-corrected on the fouls. Some pretty blatant examples of jump shooters getting trucked have been met with a shoulder shrug by the zebras.
Dallas, the league leader in offensive efficiency a year ago, is 27th right now, barely outscoring the relentlessly tanktacular Oklahoma City Thunder. Brooklyn is 22nd in offense despite employing Kevin Durant, James Harden and Joe Harris. Denver has the reigning MVP and ranks 25th. Phoenix, two wins from the title a year ago and fully intact to start the season, is 20th. The reigning champs in Milwaukee are 15th. Atlanta is barfing up a Bourbon Street bachelor party’s worth of midrange jumpers.
In the meantime, one of the trend lines to watch for the remainder of the year is how offenses adjust to how the game is being called. They always do. And in particular, I’ll be closely watching how the league’s top-notch offenses recover from their early stumbles. Can Harden find his mojo? Can players such as Paul, Lillard and Young figure out new free-throw tricks to replace the old ones?
The issue when defending a Lillard or Young isn’t just the trickeration they were using to draw three-shot fouls; it was that the threat of those tricks left greater openings for all their other maneuvers. Without those options in their back pockets, we’ve seen those players struggle to generate points quite easily in the early part of the season. (Sidenote: They’re still awesome … just slightly less awesome thus far.)
...officials also seem to be giving perimeter defenders way more leeway to use physicality and hand-checking. I don’t hate this, but it’s possible they’ve overcompensated.
Jamaaliver wrote:Trae needs to watch his mouth before he gets blackballed by the refs.
dbt4life wrote:I find it funny that 3 out of the 4 players mentioned in the video play 0 defense. If the foul aren’t being called for you, then they wouldn’t be on against you on the defensive side of the ball