Young frustrated with new rules changes

[Jamaaliver]

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[leo7]

I really hope the NBA cleans up this extra physicality soon. If this continues Trae is going to have hit the weight room 24/7, and/or become an elite 3pt shooter. If not then the Hawks are in trouble.

[Prokorov]

we have seen the same with harden. like trae, the couple fouls they draw on trickery was small compared to how many they drew just by beating their man and forcing help/contract.

Harden has gotten clearly mauled multiple times with no call. like stuff you would see called in the most physical street ball games. refs are overeacting.

[Jamaaliver]

...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.

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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.

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[jayu70]

Bogi and Gallo love doing this.

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Monty McCutchen, the NBA’s vice president of referee development and training, said Tuesday afternoon that he’s pleased with the league’s progress toward eliminating foul calls on non-basketball moves. But he added that his officials are still working to strike the right balance between not calling those non-basketball moves and missing some defensive fouls, and that the league is still committed to offensive players not being held and grabbed — what the league refers to as “freedom of movement.”

 

– via Tim Bontemps @ ESPN

[Jamaaliver]

Trae needs to watch his mouth before he gets blackballed by the refs.

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[dbt4life]

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 called against you on the defensive side of the ball

[kg01]

Trae needs to watch his mouth before he gets blackballed by the refs.

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He's already blackballed. Not gonna change now, may as well embrace it. Refs missing calls by swallowing their whistle hurts them (as they're being evaluated), not Trae.

Generally though, I do agree with your sentiment.

[kg01]

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

Is this english?