Remember when they changed the rules at the 2008 Olympic games to allow Team USA to travel? To take 3 steps without dribbling and to take a step in the initial move with a dribble? Remember when the NBA officially changed its rules before this season to the same, so that now the NBA is claiming such is "within the rules"?
Now the NBA has a new rule it has started for the playoffs which allows the player to jump in the air with the ball and return to the court with the ball - without traveling. This is the future of Euroleague/FIBA if David Stern is continued to allow to change and manipulate the game's rules so much in order to make an "entertainment show".
Something has to be done about this because Stern is having complete influence in all the rules to ULEB and FIBA and even they keep changing them just because he tells them to. The NBA is rapidly becoming a joke that is equivalent to the WWE wrestling and we can't allow this to happen to the European game.
If you want an example of what is now this new non travel in NBA rules where you can jump in the air with the ball and keep it and then hit the floor and not be called for a travel, look at this:
This is now considered a legal dribble in the NBA, as is the taking a step in your initial move without dribbling and taking 3 steps without a dribble (even though if you watch the NBA you already know 4-5 steps without a dribble is allowed by the refs).
So we can expect not only the making a move without a dribble and the 4-5 steps without a dribble like at the 2008 Olympics at the 2010 Worlds, but we can also expect the allowing of jumping in the air with the ball and coming back to the floor still with the ball as being legal as well.
This is becoming ridiculous and absurd. So what can we do about this to stop this and prevent it from ruing the international game? It's getting out of hand now and going way too far. The NBA can't be allowed to continue this.
Should we complain as fans directly to ULEB and FIBA or what?
Now the NBA has a new rule it has started for the playoffs which allows the player to jump in the air with the ball and return to the court with the ball - without traveling. This is the future of Euroleague/FIBA if David Stern is continued to allow to change and manipulate the game's rules so much in order to make an "entertainment show".
Something has to be done about this because Stern is having complete influence in all the rules to ULEB and FIBA and even they keep changing them just because he tells them to. The NBA is rapidly becoming a joke that is equivalent to the WWE wrestling and we can't allow this to happen to the European game.
If you want an example of what is now this new non travel in NBA rules where you can jump in the air with the ball and keep it and then hit the floor and not be called for a travel, look at this:
This is now considered a legal dribble in the NBA, as is the taking a step in your initial move without dribbling and taking 3 steps without a dribble (even though if you watch the NBA you already know 4-5 steps without a dribble is allowed by the refs).
So we can expect not only the making a move without a dribble and the 4-5 steps without a dribble like at the 2008 Olympics at the 2010 Worlds, but we can also expect the allowing of jumping in the air with the ball and coming back to the floor still with the ball as being legal as well.
This is becoming ridiculous and absurd. So what can we do about this to stop this and prevent it from ruing the international game? It's getting out of hand now and going way too far. The NBA can't be allowed to continue this.
Should we complain as fans directly to ULEB and FIBA or what?
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