Thunder-Wolves thriller hijacked by free-throw parade, showing again why NBA needs to get serious about a fix

The last 10 wonderful seconds The American Professional League Basketball game, this time Oklahoma City Thursdays 128-126 Victory on Minnesota Timberwolvs To take the Western Conference Finals 3-1 on Monday, it was destroyed by an increasingly familiar and mockery defect that the league rejects it.

You will not find anything new in describing the next sequence, which reduced the few exciting minutes of the American Professional League Finals game to 10 seconds of drying the paint. I have seen this careful scenario playing hundreds of times if you follow the American Professional League. Team A wins three points in the final seconds, so it is Team B, intentionallyTo prevent it from trying to indicate 3 potential.

In this case, thunder was team a. It has risen 126-123 yet Gilgos Alexander tea He missed a free throw with 7.1 seconds to play. This should have been the most exciting part of a very exciting game. Everyone should have been the fans in the arena to everyone who watched on TV around the world, on the edge of their seats. However, we all know what will come. Included error. What he committed if it turned on the first arrivals corridors, then again the tenth of the second at a later time to send Naz Reed To the free throw line.

Red makes both. Minnesota below. They are unpleasant. Also intentionally. More free throws. SGA is made both, and we return to the place where we started, with the three Minnesota decreased, and now only the hour decreased to six seconds. Wolves outside the deadline, so they must take the ball throughout the full court. Alex Caroso Allow Anthony Edwards To take some drops in the court to kill three seconds, then the mistakes. intentionally. There is no doubt about this. It is literally recorded as “take” in the feeding of the toys.

Here I will remind you that the American Professional League has been amended, rightly, that his book’s book to punish “Transfer to take mistakes” intentionally to stop a quick break. Why? Since the fast breaks are exciting, it is not supposed to help errors in the violating team. There is no difference with these errors, which removes the possibility of getting a snapshot to link the game, and therefore, Help The violating team.

Minnesota does not want two free throws here. It needs three points. In football, you can reject the sanctions, and perhaps the same choice should be available to you in basketball. Imagine a football team with six points, for defense, only allowed to commit a penalty that compels the team at six points to kick a field goal instead of trying to throw the match to the end area?

This will not happen. In football, if a penalty is committed, You They are punished. All he does is to move the attack team even closer to the end area. You cannot remove an opportunity to shoot the game regardless of the number of ways to try to manipulate the rules. The same in the baseball game. If you have one progress with two rejectionists in the ninth half, you will not be able to get rid of the final bats of the game. Do you walk on the plate? You have to go to the next man. You walk enough players, and dozens of operation. You cannot help yourself by doing something designed, depending on the judgment, to hurt you.

Why can’t basketball know this? There are countless ways to address them. Again, these things are clear to take mistakes, which are already in the book of rules and are punished by giving two free throws plus Power the team that stumbles. Impose three errors in the same way, and you will not see one again. They will go away, POV, like this, and ten years from now will not ask every fan in the world except what the American Professional League Hell has long for a long time to do so.

Or, as it is proposed above, give the team that spoiled the option to reject the punishment. Put the original time again around the clock, take the ball from the border, and two mistakes, respectively, is a technical. Two shots in addition to the ball. Again, this crisis will be more than the next day. No more mistakes that absorb life than what should be the most exciting time in the game.

Or what about this? If the team that rises three errors outside the 3 -point points line, whether it is on the shot or not, it is three free rumors. The league is currently punishing deliberate errors for bad archers in free shooting during the last minute. Why will this be different? It is literally the same logic. The league decided that you should not be allowed to send a player to the free shooting line if this player does not benefit, and with his team’s extension, that there is. This is the spirit of free throws. It is supposed to be rewards.

When you are three years old, you are not rewarded for free software. You are punished. Likewise, the fans, who were stolen on Monday from a possible snapshot to photograph the game in the name of Watch Edwards, March to the free throw line, where he made the first and lost the second purpose before the game ended on the despair borders that were thrown in the most anti -stricken methods.

Wonderful things.

This cannot be exaggerated: These qualifying games are the chances of the league that will tell you that it will lose its popularity, or at least they must fight more strongly and more difficult for the eyes of contemporary fans with endless entertainment options. And when the tension must explode to be able to explode, the game ends with the contamination of one team on purpose and the other team is intentionally missing?

This is similar to a man in the garden that continues to pick up the ram shots of his saliva and shoot from the back plate so that he can recover. It is a way to circumvent. It has no place in the American Professional League game, not to mention the qualifying game.

Now, let’s deal with hypocrisy in playing here. The team that loses also Related to extension of the game. This wolves did this Monday, as each team is plus basketball in the final seconds. For this reason, Gilgeous-alexander was primarily in the free throw line. If thunder will be punishable by dirt on, then why should it not be the same for wolves?

It is a fair question, and it happens that you have a clear answer. Elam is called end. I tried the American Professional League in a couple of all stars games. If you are not aware of the end of Elam, the matter goes on this way: in the mark of four minutes in the fourth quarter, the watch is turned off and the difference plays to a targeted degree-usually eight points from the expected team number.

In the Monday match, thunder rose 113-109 with four minutes to play. You can turn off the watch and play to 121. This completely removes the foulers from the equation, because any point you record your opponent only pushes them to nearly the winning number.

If you are losing, you can’t go on intentionally. You don’t even need. You don’t play around the clock. You just play to prevent the other team from registering. The same if you win. You do not have an incentive to allow free aforestock. You just play the defense at one end and try to register on the other hand. In other words, basketball is played.

What happened at the end of Thunder-Wolves on Monday, and what we saw is playing at the end of the games to a large extent because he was played in peach baskets, not basketball. It is a way to circumvent. It is time to stop.

There are a lot of easily executable enforcement to achieve this. If the end of Elam is very radical to you, then there is nothing wrong. Institute of any of the options I mentioned above. Or do something else. Anything else. Just get a room and discover it. Because I assure you, no one wants to watch this. Free pomegranate is similar to broadcasting service ads. You see them because you are forced to do so, and you skip them at the moment when you become a choice. Note, the American Professional League. Before your audience, even if only a small sub -group of it, you start to take it.