From the "Well, that sucks" annals...

[NewMonkey]

Football has natural breaks in the action that have always made it practical. Basketball does not with any consistency. About the only thing you could consistently overrule during the breaks which you CAN count on (the quarters) would be toe on the line 3 pointers etc. (and even that not in the final quarter when it would change strategy). Otherwise you either have to repeatedly stop play -- a disaster to the flow of the game -- or wait to change something later that would have had a definite impact on the game in realtime. No good way to do it.

Give teams one review per half. The review costs the team a full timeout on their next possession. This wouldn't slow the game down at all. No extra timeouts, and the officials have 2 1/2 minutes to overrule the call or it automatically sticks. Easy.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Give teams one review per half. The review costs the team a full timeout on their next possession. This wouldn't slow the game down at all. No extra timeouts, and the officials have 2 1/2 minutes to overrule the call or it automatically sticks. Easy.

Not easy.

The speed at which basketball is played makes any type of in game review system very difficult.

If you stop the game in order to challenge a call, it slows the game down. If you wait until a natural break in game play (as you would for player substitutions, etc.), then it would be very difficult to determine what to do with any points that may have been scored during the possessions between the call in question and the break in play.

 

[VF21]

If the call results in a trip to the foul line or a technical, the game is already stopped. You don't see many complaints about non-shooting fouls.

 

[Superman]

Not easy.

The speed at which basketball is played makes any type of in game review system very difficult.

If you stop the game in order to challenge a call, it slows the game down. If you wait until a natural break in game play (as you would for player substitutions, etc.), then it would be very difficult to determine what to do with any points that may have been scored during the possessions between the call in question and the break in play.

He's suggesting that the team calls for a review, and in doing so, loses a timeout. It would be just like calling a timeout in a dead ball situation. It wouldn't stop the game anymore than calling a timeout would.

I could actually see that working, but I don't think the NBA needs instant replay during the middle of games. At the end of quarters it's fine, but replays controlled by the coaches are a bit much.