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[QUOTE="Quazzum69, post: 1320174, member: 2653"]
How can the game take any more fouls? It is already too damn slow and bogged down by constant starting and stopping. Somehow, basketball has become the game for wimps that can't take a little slap on the wrist and need water breaks every 3 minutes.

Compared to all contact sports, basketball has the least tolerance for physical contact and, as a result, the most stoppages (except for football). Football, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, rugby all allow more contact yet are much cleaner and more fluid (expect for football). What other sport does 10-20% (just a guess) of your scoring come from "free" throws? Free as in free money for refs to rig games (seriously, we're talking about a point or two that could mean thousands of dollars).   
  
And another thing: maybe most coaches are really not that smart (most of them seem to say a lot of dumb stuff). Maybe it's just a bunch of jocks (well, [I]former [/I]jocks) just drawing up stuff on a board. Maybe that's why when a seemingly simple strategy like "pack-line" defense comes along, nobody can beat it because all the coaches are dummies.
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