It’s a lot easier when the basic rules of basketball are no longer enforced.
It’s getting increasingly harder for me to watch a league where Tyrese Haliburton’s buzzer beating 3 to end Q3 is replayed and nobody sees or comments that it was a blatant travel and shouldn’t have counted.
Dude stopped his dribble, established a pivot foot, then left switched his pivot foot so he could get off the shot w/o it getting smacked back in his face.
People need to wake up and realize that today’s players are NOT the best, most gifted of all time but rather are just afforded freedom of movement like we’ve never seen before. And that also defy the basic rules of the game. It’s getting more and more liberal and ridiculous each season.
I’m not at all amazed by what these players are doing when they are given extra steps to do it and not constrained by the rules that were enforced differently before them.
I mean, at this point, why even make them bother with dribbling? Between palming, carrying, taking 3-4 steps, and not having to keep a pivot foot — why not go the full distance and just let them run with the ball w/o having to bother dribbling it? I’m sure they’ll be able to perform even more jaw dropping moves and get off shots from even more improbable/impossible positions.
