Fouls

[It's Gr8 2 B a V]

Watching NCAA basketball games are becoming increasingly difficult to watch. There's a foul just about every other possession. 90% of those fouls are because a defender touched the offensive players back for a split second or a defenders foot touched another player's foot. The new rule changes and officiating is destroying the game and making basketball soft.

I want to see the good old tough and physical out-man your opponent type of games and I know our players do to. It's hard to play with the Tougher Breed style with all these p*$sy foul calls. #GBO

 

[JonWard]

It is like every team is Duke now.

 

[dovervolz]

Watching NCAA basketball games are becoming increasingly difficult to watch. There's a foul just about every other possession. 90% of those fouls are because a defender touched the offensive players back for a split second or a defenders foot touched another player's foot. The new rule changes and officiating is destroying the game and making basketball soft.

I want to see the good old tough and physical out-man your opponent type of games and I know our players do to. It's hard to play with the Tougher Breed style with all these p*$sy foul calls. #GBO

mabe you should start watching more football then. Basketball was never intended to be a full contact sport. And that's what it's become.

 

[1985Vols]

Too many games are Free Throw shooting contests now.

 

[FleeceItOut]

mabe you should start watching more football then. Basketball was never intended to be a full contact sport. And that's what it's become.

Dude don't be soft
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[GAVol]

It is like every team is Duke now.

Perfect analogy. :lol:

 

[VolGee4]

mabe you should start watching more football then. Basketball was never intended to be a full contact sport. And that's what it's become.

Pick and rolls are old fashioned basketball, and the very nature of them is to "pick" a defender, which almost always results in physical contact. I am not advocating football type contact obviously, but with the size and speed of players these days, basketball is a contact sport. It is impossible to call everything. But the touch fouls at the top of the key do not need to be called. There is still much contact down low that is not called. We have to be consistent. Otherwise, it is terrible to watch.

 

[GoVols15]

mabe you should start watching more football then. Basketball was never intended to be a full contact sport. And that's what it's become.

I do watch more football now because of the silly fouls being called. Basketball is now more about foul shooting which has really slowed the game down. I agree it's not a contact spore but please, these new enforcement policies have really taken away from the game to the point I really don't watch it much!

 

[feathersax]

Watching NCAA basketball games are becoming increasingly difficult to watch. There's a foul just about every other possession. 90% of those fouls are because a defender touched the offensive players back for a split second or a defenders foot touched another player's foot. The new rule changes and officiating is destroying the game and making basketball soft.

I want to see the good old tough and physical out-man your opponent type of games and I know our players do to. It's hard to play with the Tougher Breed style with all these p*$sy foul calls. #GBO

This! I can't watch a full game anymore. Officials are more subjective than ever & games have become tedious.

 

[dovervolz]

Pick and rolls are old fashioned basketball, and the very nature of them is to "pick" a defender, which almost always results in physical contact. I am not advocating football type contact obviously, but with the size and speed of players these days, basketball is a contact sport. It is impossible to call everything. But the touch fouls at the top of the key do not need to be called. There is still much contact down low that is not called. We have to be consistent. Otherwise, it is terrible to watch.

A pick and roll is designed for the player setting the pick to roll opposite of the flow of the ball to the rim. That never happens any more, they most always set the pick to guard off the defender and move with the flow of the ball and actually it becomes a moving screen preventing the defender to get to the ball. Which is a foul that's' never hardly called. I agree there is too much at the top and not enough down low.

 

[SeniorDrill]

Here is the major problem that Tennessee has in my opinion. Every game they've lost they have gotten destroyed inside. It happens over and over and you never seem them play zone to stop it. Martin is wedded to the man-to-man and lose games because of it!

 

[SeniorDrill]

Here is the major problem that Tennessee has in my opinion. Every game they've lost they have gotten destroyed inside. It happens over and over and you never seem them play zone to stop it. Martin is wedded to the man-to-man and lose games because of it!

Forgot to mention, it helps keep the big guys out of foul trouble!

 

[Shaun1985]

It is like every team is Duke now.

ROFL. I'd like this a million times if I could. Solid post!

 

[Shaun1985]

Here is the major problem that Tennessee has in my opinion. Every game they've lost they have gotten destroyed inside. It happens over and over and you never seem them play zone to stop it. Martin is wedded to the man-to-man and lose games because of it!

I don't agree because I don't think our team has the players to play an effective zone. We would get torched.

 

[SeniorDrill]

I don't agree because I don't think our team has the players to play an effective zone. We would get torched.

Have you not seen us get torched down the lane in every game we have lost? They drive right by the defenders and nobody is there to pick them up. On the other hand, have you not seen the zone defense totally shut down our inside game? UTEP had us playing like a high school team with a 1-3-1 and triangle and 2 combo. Listen I am not saying don't use the man as the primary defense, I am saying when the man does not stop the other team's offense, you have to be able to play zone to change the tempe.