Thursday, February 09, 2012

the best hoopideas

ESPN is soliciting ideas for how to make basketball better.

Here are the diamonds in the rough from twitter:

Penalty box! Power plays! Two freebies, and then 3rd and 4th fouls incur a 30 second penalty box visit, 5th and 6th, incur a 1 minute visit.

Play 7 periods of 8 minutes each. First to win 4 periods wins. Only 1 timeout per period. Each game a best of 7! (Interesting but basically is like tennis. People still think the first sets are boring...)

No saving timeouts. Once the clock hits 2:00 each team is allowed 1 timeout despite how many you had 'saved.'

First team to 100 wins, must win by 3.

Overtime is 4 on 4.

More commercials at quarter breaks, so less commercials during the action.

Basically any rule that makes basketball more like hockey.

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