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[QUOTE="Quazzum69, post: 893430, member: 2653"]
Anything to make the game more fluid and less subjective like:

1) less stops in play due to mandated commercials

2) less fouls and less free throws. Free throws should be like penalty kicks in soccer - very infrequent and only for the most severe penalty. Make it harder to get to the line but more reward, like two or three points. A third of a team's points should never be from standing in a stationary position and throw the ball when no one is near you (which is very often a result of a subjective call from someone not even playing the game). The death of basketball will be from excessive free throws.

3) More incidental contact should be allowed. If you are 6-6 and 220 pounds, you should be able to take a slap on the wrist or a little body contact when you're driving to the basket - it is a contact sport after all. Leave it up to the players to enforce it themselves. If you are an Aaron Craft and slap away at your opponent, expect the other team to go after you hard. If you are an honorable opponent, than you have nothing to worry about.

4) Instead of increasing foul limits, get rid of them all together or change the system. What better way to invite corruption and bias into a game than giving a foul limit that eliminates players from the game based on subjective calls? If you foul someone, give them the ball at half court (perhaps no inbounding needed) and no foul is put onto a player unless it is with unnecessary force, etc. Give each player a two foul limit, then they are ejected.
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