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New rules of nba lottery

On Friday night, after Philadelphia beat Atlanta in Game 6, joel embiid took the opportunity to express the double standards in NBA penalty.

"I just don't think the punishment is uniform, especially because their point guards have the least contact," he said. "If it is us, we will get different punishment. I just hope that their punishment can be unified. "

When Embiid said "we", he didn't mean the Philadelphia 76ers. He refers to the NBA big man who plays in the low post-Embiid said that compared with the lighter standards adopted by the players who have created the miracle of modern outside shooting (including Atlanta Hawks point guard Trey Young), this endangered player will be limited by different contact scales when making fouls.

Embiid added: "If we want to call a foul, we should use the same standard as the point guard. If I am' touched' like a point guard, they should apply the same blow to me. "

Embiid was right. The standard of jump shot is different from that of low-post players, but it is intentional. The NBA rulebook clearly allows inside guards to have more physical contact than outside guards.

You can legally put an arm around the waist of the inside players and lean on them, but if you dare to touch the shooter's elbow 25 feet (7.6 meters) from the basket, you will not only be caught red-handed, but also be punished by one of the most severe punishments in the NBA-the terrible three-point foul.

Everyone knows that three-pointers broke out in this decade, leading the trend. But one thing is developing faster: three-point foul. It has a great influence on the offense of NBA.

Theoretically, the relative size of basketball players should not affect the penalty on the court. A foul on a defender (such as Yang) whose height is 185 cm and weight is 8 1 kg should also be considered a foul. If a player is 30 centimeters taller than Embiid and weighs 45 kilograms, it should also be called a foul. In fact, however, league referees punish players of different sizes differently. As the game is more and more dominated by outside lines, defenders have a stronger influence in the game, especially at half-court. According to the position, size and shooting method, the inconsistency of allowable contact scale is more obvious than before.

This was fully demonstrated in the first half of Game 7 in Brooklyn on Saturday. Earlier in the first quarter, Nets guard james harden got entangled with Giannis Antetokounmpo after a bad three-pointer landed, and got three free throws. A few minutes later, when Adetokunbo rushed to the basket during the transition, Bruce Brown hugged him and killed his momentum. The two became entangled, and Adetokunbo finally landed in a very embarrassing way, and then stood firm under the pillar of the basketball stand. Final penalty: ordinary foul, no free throw, foul ball out of bounds.

For any neutral observer, it is obvious that Adetokunbo suffered more physical contact than he took the initiative, so why did his foul free throw do more harm to the team than his foul free throw? This seems unfair.

This is not to say that Embiid and Adetokunbo will not foul. On the contrary, in fact, their average number of fouls this season ranks first and second in the NBA.

Superstars have whistles in the NBA; This is nothing new. But they use different methods. There are three people on the list who look like rough barbarians, and the other two are elegant dancers. Although his figure is relatively weak, Yang fouls more than almost all other players in every game. Is it because he is more physically antagonistic than players like Zion Williamson and Embiid? Of course not. He just made good use of what has become a trend.

In the 2002-03 season, there were only 0.47 three-point fouls per game, and the three-point foul rate was only 1.6%. This season, he averaged 2.6 three-point fouls per game, with a three-point foul rate of 3.8%. Although the number of three-point shots we see now is more than twice that of then, the number of three-point fouls we see now is five times that of 20 years ago, and the probability of three-point shooters being fouled now is more than twice that of then.

What happened? Why are three-point shooters more than twice as likely to be fouled as they were 20 years ago? Did the defender have more physical contact when approaching the shooter? Don't they know that sending a three-point shooter to the free throw line will pay a huge price? No, the answer is actually much simpler and more worrying for the NBA. Guys, this is a carnival.

Treyan averaged 6.8 fouls per game this season.

In the past five years, Harden can get 1. 16 points from an open three-pointer. Since 20 18 entered the NBA, Yang's return on empty shots has been higher, averaging 1.35 points per game.

These are good numbers, and any NBA attacker will be satisfied. But there is a better data that elite three-point shooters are chasing: in view of the NBA's average free throw percentage (76.6%), the expected return of three-point foul is an astonishing 2.33 points.

This is the value of being fouled and sent to the free throw line after shooting 3 points (this should also take into account the possibility of giving or making adjustments to grab potential offensive rebounds after missing 3 points). Players know this, they are smarter than ever, which is why they will try their best to pursue such a result.

Now, watching any NBA game, you will see the three-point shooter pass through the defender with his arm, and then hit the defender or kick. These cunning skills are the core of Yang's method, because the alliance rewards them. There is no such place near the basket, and reasonable physical confrontation against violations is usually not noticed or whistled.

Yang's shooting foul happened at an average distance of 4.4 meters from the basket, but that doesn't mean that he fouled many times when he jumped the jumper at a distance of 4.6 meters. This season, he was fouled 76 times while trying to jump shot, which is the most in the league. This doesn't include the foul caused by him bypassing the cover and detecting physical contact during the attack, so the referee refused to give him three free throws.

Among the 48 players who have made at least 100 shooting fouls this season, Yang has the highest average foul distance and jump shot percentage. Of Yang's shooting fouls this season, 4 1.8% occurred when he made a jump shot.

In contrast, Embiid also occupies a considerable share in outside shooting, but fouls in the inside area are still much more frequent. The average distance from the basket to the foul he made was 2. 1 m-not counting his numerous dunks, layups or rebounds, but the whistle didn't sound.

It's strange that the NBA allows physical contact. Why are these jumpers so relaxed in an era when the attack is increasingly biased towards the outside? Or conversely, in an era when the inside attack is halved, why do the inside players still play so hard?

The three-point shooter enjoys the biggest subsidy in this sport. Compared with players who are active in the three-point line, their shooting income is 50% more. Isn't this advantage big enough? If they can have a little physical contact, should we give them a chance of three penalties? This wonderful opportunity is so tempting that it directly inspires players like Harden and Yang, who will pursue the whistle like scoring.

There is no doubt that change is coming. According to Adrian Voinarovschi of ESPN, the NBA Competition Committee is exploring the rule changes this summer to limit the "unnatural actions" used by jumpers to create fouls, such as sideways jumpers or backward jumpers hitting defenders, in order to win the opportunity to go to the free throw line. This is a good start. We have seen too many "no martial arts" and deceptive performances at many important moments. The NBA must do better to make its rules consistent with its values. In the past 40 years, the league has changed countless rules to promote the sport, but sometimes it has unexpected consequences.

Just four years ago, when Zaza Pachulia, the big man of Golden State Warriors, stepped on kawhi leonard's left-wing jumper, the 20 17 Western Conference final was changed forever. The San Antonio Spurs star fell at Pachulia's feet and injured his ankle again. At that time, the Spurs led by 2 1 point in the first game. They will continue to lose games and series, and Leonard will only play nine more games on the Spurs jersey before being traded to the Toronto Raptors.

In response to this obviously dangerous play, the NBA upgraded the punishment for defenders who put their feet into the shooter's landing area, making it a malicious foul. However, in recent years, shooters have used this rule to expand their landing area. Players move their legs forward or sideways (even if there is danger of injury) to cause a valuable 3-point foul. Bucks insisted that Harden did it in the first quarter of Saturday night, and even before standing up to accept the result, they seemed to have considered challenging the penalty.

There is also a regulation in the NBA manual that players who shoot three points should be judged as offensive fouls when they try to make physical contact with their legs, but this regulation is rarely implemented. When the referee sees the shooter fall to the ground, he is more likely to send him to the free throw line and then punish three goals, regardless of whether the shooter himself or the defender caused the fall.

In addition to implementing the rules now formulated, the league can take more measures to curb shooters seeking cheap fouls. As Kevin Pelton and John hollinger pointed out, simply reducing the number of free throws from three to two can do a lot in balancing off-court fouls and penalties. According to the scoring rate of each round, an average of two free throws is still more valuable than an open three-pointer, so what's the point of adding a third free throw? Well, one consideration is that three-point shooters usually get three points at the end of the game, so it is very smart to foul these shooters by reducing the number of free throws at the end of some anxious games. But the league can completely return to the 3-point free throw in the last two minutes to deal with this situation.

Our answer is, don't start to allow as much physical contact as possible, unless the NBA wants us to return to the kind of unarmed basketball we saw in the 1990 s and mid-2000 s, when the score of an NBA finals was finally fixed at 69-64. We can't treat inside players like outside players, which will cause many people such as Embiid, Adetokunbo and Williamson to make 20-30 free throws every night.

Nevertheless, what Embiid said is quite reasonable. Insider players will not get the same foul treatment as outside players. The inside scorer must overcome more physical contact than the jumper who gets 3 points to get 2 points. The answer is not to punish Yang, Harden and others like them (and don't let the defenders punish them physically). However, for the NBA, their goal should be to revise the game, and before the game, they are more inclined to pursue the minimum physical contact than before, rather than leaning further in the shooting direction.