FIBA Rule Changes

FIBA has proposed two further rule changes:

(a) extending the duration of the game to 4 x 12 minute quarters

(b) extending the 3 point line.



A Duration of the Game 4x12 minutes

1 Are you in favour of having basketball played 4x12 minutes Yes/No

2 If yes, should it apply to

Senior men Yes/No

Senior women Yes/No

3 If yes (to question 1), the change of rule must be accompanied by changes to the related rules:

6 player's fouls Yes/No

5 team fouls per period Yes/No

B 3-point Line

1 Are you in favour of moving the 3 point line further from the basket?

Yes/No

2 If yes, should it be moved to (at present it is 6.25m):

6.50m Yes/No

6.75m Yes/No

7m Yes/No

7.25m Yes/No (this is NBA distance)

3 If yes (to question 1), should it be valid for Senior men Yes/No Senior Women Yes/No

Im all for longer games and longer 3pt line.. more spacing!!!!

[aussieBaller]

Is this for International?

[Kingshood]

I really wanted to respond to your original questions but then you broke it down waaaay too much.

[MAIN_MAN]

nah i like the 3 point line where it is....hell 7.25m is too far for me. It's an extra metre.... :D

[F-Bomb]

Agree with Expertise.

[MAIN_MAN]

3 If yes (to question 1), should it be valid for Senior men Yes/No Senior Women Yes/No

Im all for longer games and longer 3pt line.. more spacing!!!!

mate the women will have it hard hitting from that range even the men.

3 point line should not be moved back.

[F-Bomb]

They will get used to it MAIN. Do they use the NBA three point line in the WNBA?

[MAIN_MAN]

nope I don't think so.

[Ups]

I agree with X too!

[Essen]

I agree with the 4 x 12 minute quarters but not with the three point line extension.

Reason i want deeper 3 point line is the spacing.. and hey I have 2 hell shooters and they can shoot from 8m no worries.. so im not fussed :P

[speakerboxxx]

bud i'll let you shoot it from out there anyday.

what's your record again??

2-3

but yeah, more for the spacing, and its not that far... take one decent step from the 3pt line... any decent outside player can shoot from there.

[speakerboxxx]

and im sure there's lots of those in your league. like breedin rabbits!

being in cairns, you would of seen alot fo our league wouldnt you?

[speakerboxxx]

wrong again...

[Ups]

So where you from speakerboxxx Victoria?

[Homer]

Easy .................. 4x12's
6 player fouls
Leave the 3point line where it is.
Pay referees double there current pay rate.

[Skindog the Hawk]

Easy .................. 4x12's
6 player fouls
Leave the 3point line where it is.
Pay referees double there current pay rate.

Funnily enough, IAW Homer (esp. the bit about double pay)....

[Cee_em_bee]

I don't mind shooting from that far out, It would make the lane a bit less clogged when a Zone is being used.

[Bobby]

They will get used to it MAIN. Do they use the NBA three point line in the WNBA?

No, it's 6.25m there.

[kecu]

Easy .................. 4x12's
6 player fouls
Leave the 3point line where it is.
Pay referees double there current pay rate.

i like paying the refs double!!!

leave the 3pt line where it is,...soon it wont be called fiba it will be called american basketball rules. everytime america makes a change the rest of the world closely follows. THERE ARE TOO MANY RULES!!! whatever happend to just letting us play?

i like the 6 fouls!! it either means one more bad foul call by the refs, or at the end of the game i have one more cheap shot at the chick that has been hacking me all game and no call :wink:

[Bobby]

Some history is required:

A failed one-off basketball league founded by Abe Saperstein in 1960 and lasting only two seasons offered the trey at the 7m (6.7m at the corners). This led to the American Basketball Association's idea in 1967 (that league was the perveyor of many ideas), which led to the NBA three-point line set in 1979. The FIBA added the trey in 1984.

The six fouls rule works ONLY with a 48-minute game. The logic of the rule, as written in 1946, was based on the difference between a 40-minute game and a 48-minute game. The sixth foul only reflects the extra 20% of the Basketball Association of America (the pre-1949 name of the NBA -- Boston, New York, and Golden State are the three clubs of the post-WWII BAA as founded to survive the initial years of the struggling league) game as written in 1946.

The NBA also has a "no foul out" rule once a team is reduced to five players and everyone else is injured or fouled out. At the point a team is reduced to five players, when a player hits number six, he stays in the game, but a technical foul (nobody can be disqualified) is assessed, and one free throw is added to any free throws to be awarded. If the foul is an offensive foul, one free throw -- regardless -- is awarded. The latter penalty is also given to a team when a team is down to five, and one player is injured and must leave the game, with the last player to foul out returning to the game with the same technical foul.

Important: Technical fouls for truly administrative (Delay of Game, Illegal Defense, and Re-entering the game after six fouls because there is no player entitled to play left on the bench) are not grounds for disqualification. Only unsportsmanlike nature fouls are grounds.

[Clips]

The NBA also has a "no foul out" rule once a team is reduced to five players and everyone else is injured or fouled out. At the point a team is reduced to five players, when a player hits number six, he stays in the game, but a technical foul (nobody can be disqualified) is assessed, and one free throw is added to any free throws to be awarded. If the foul is an offensive foul, one free throw -- regardless -- is awarded. The latter penalty is also given to a team when a team is down to five, and one player is injured and must leave the game, with the last player to foul out returning to the game with the same technical foul.

I've been wondering about that one, especially with Phoenix being down to 5 remaining players in their 3OT games recently.

[just-matt]

Is that rule still in, I remember playing a NBA game with a friend a few years ago and if you pressed one of the buttons it would strike at someone so when I was getting flogged I kept striking at the referee to get ejected and ended up having 5 players left but they wouldn't be disqualified. Come to think if it an incident last year as a referee may just have been karma for playing that game.

Have a nice day,
Just Matt

[DoubleA]

I've always liked how the international game is played differently to the leagues around the world, because its truely the international game. Two halves and a shorter 3 point line, I don't agree with the world conforming to the NBA game, leave it how it is.

[Nuge]

I think the game internationally needs to grow and with these rule changes it will be better.

Extending the 3ball line to 24 feet(NBA?) you will see better low-post battles.

I also agree with the other changes as well.

The real test will be getting the NBL to adopt the changes.

We all talk about changing fiba ways to ncaa/nba ways and how it is bad..

You guys do remember that Basketball is a AMERICAN sport.

Imagine going over to america and seeing them playing afl.. on a square field, etc.

you would think that is just now how afl is played.