I’m reading stuff about players not feeling happy and it this or think it’s “weird” and they have every right to. But I find it funny that we have had years of guys intentionally fouling bad free throw shooters 90 feet away from the basket and nothing about “integrity of the game” being an issue.
For the record. I’m fine with that strategy. If you can exploit a weakness to win a game, then you do it. However, I can admit that that is not basketball the way it was intended to be played.
It only works if you are literally incapable if the most basic part if the game.
Like, Giannis is a bad free throw shooter but hack a Giannis isn’t that prevalent because he still CAN make them.
If we’re talking about how basketball was “meant to be played”, players were meant to be capable of making free throws. That’s why they exist.
Basketball was also meant to not include dribbling if we get really pedantic.