View more: Top 11 nba teams without a championship. Hand-checking is a personal fault of the player who committed the foul. If a team has five individual fouls in a match, their opponent gets a free-throw shot. The player was then allowed to sit on the bench unless the referee sent him off. Hand check rule appeared in the season. The NBA implemented the hand check rule in the season. This rule clearly demonstrates an effort to reduce hand-checking. In addition, it clarifies fouls when blocking and implements the three-second defense rule.
The hand check rule completely messed up the NBA. In the past, hand check was the primary form of defense that defenders used for ball handlers to control their actions and speed.
Hand check play has been a hit in the NBA since the rule was amended in However, people later killed this tactic to make way for a more agile and free play. The most special is the position of centers with all the giant players. People said that a team to win the championship at that time needed an unrivaled center. Games were surprisingly slow at the time, and perimeter play was still underdeveloped. Hand-checking indeed plays a vital role in this scenario.
However, the coaches and executives at the time had a different view. So they allow hand check action to happen. In a basketball game full of big men and where hand check is valid, the defense gets rougher.
An offensive player at that time also had to fight harder. On the other hand, offensive players are often not interested in getting close to the perimeter. Too many towering walls would appear in front of them. Michael Jordan changed the entire basketball game. Every major sport goes through phases and rule changes. With the hand-check penalty, we might see the same results as with the restrictions placed on NFL defenses after the season.
The hand-check, as well as the legalization of zone defense at the dawn of the s, changed the NBA forever. We may be seeing the continuation of NBA offenses setting record-breaking numbers and players putting up marks not to be reached until the next generation.
New User posted their first comment. Log in. Stephen Curry guarding John. Modified 21 Nov Feature. And boy did the guards take advantage. Edited by Ram Kumar 1. Login to post your comment. Therefore, I wanted to make it a big enough number that had a large enough sample size to not be misleading but small enough to actually still be an accomplishment that was rare.
In other words, did he fit the Jordan model of player? What you see above is the number of point games per year scored on average before and after the hand check rule started to be enforced. As you can see, the number has climbed by 80 percent. Kobe had 24, Jordan had That means that Jordan and Kobe combine for 40 percent of all point games by perimeter players in the last 26 seasons. If we take out those games and look at the difference before and after, we see an even larger difference.
This again, suggests the conclusion that Bryant has benefited from the rule change. If mere mortals result from the rule change, it stands to reason that the nearly immortal would too. Incidentally, just as an aside, I noticed Jordan had point games on 10 different occasions. The other intriguing thing about this is that the number of 50 point games from low post scorers has dropped off the cliff. MJ article here. Not only has the number of point games gone up by perimeter players gone up, the number of post players that have point games has gone down, both in real terms and percentages.
Even instituting the zone defense, particularly with the defensive three-second rule, has pushed the importance of the perimeter game. One of the weaknesses of zone defense is that they are prone to players who are able to penetrate and split the zone.
First, the reality is that scoring has gone up since the institution of it, but more important than how much scoring there is, is who is doing the scoring. The above evidence indicates a push towards the perimeter and less on low post scoring. This brings up the third point, which is the increased importance of the perimeter player.
In the interest of full disclosure, I counted Larry Bird as a post player. Magic Johnson had three more. Here is what has happened since the inception of the hand-check rule. As you can see, there is a complete contrast with what had happened with the award before the hand-check rule was imposed.
In the 49 years prior to the imposing of the hand-check rule, there were six individuals who won at least one award who were perimeter players. However, looking exclusively at winners can be misleading.
So to avoid any confusion on that regard I went back and looked at the last 15 years of MVP voting to see how there might be change in overall voting, and not just in winners. The above chart reflects the distribution of the voting for MVP from to , the eight-year time frame before the hand check rule was imposed. It is remarkable that with Jordan only playing three full seasons in that time frame he still managed to receive nearly twice as many votes as any other perimeter player.
In fact, he accounted for nearly 30 percent of all votes received by perimeter players over that time. My point is merely to show that Jordan, even though he only played for a percentage of the time, still skews the numbers slightly.
Here is what has happened since the hand-check rule was imposed. Perimeter players have moved to the forefront of the MVP voting, not just in terms of the winners, but in terms of the overall vote distribution. They have gone from receiving 39 percent of the cumulative vote in the eight years prior to receiving 72 percent of the cumulative vote since the hand-check rule. An award that had been for years the exclusive domain of big men has now become an exclusive award to the perimeter player. Sure, there are players like Dwight Howard still who receive some votes, but they are in the minority now, as opposed to in the past.
This reinforces the early conclusion that both the zone defense and the hand-check rule shift the importance to the ball handler and less on the man in the low post.
Once again, alone this might not be conclusive evidence of anything, but as it starts to pile up, you have to start considering the possibility that something in the league changed in the fall of Here is the distribution of 20 point scorers prior to the hand-check rule. While the perimeter players accounted for about 57 percent of all 20 point scorers, there were still a significant number of post scorers in the league.
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