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With the 2022-23 NBA season just a few weeks away, one of the major elements to look out for is the way in which referees will be judging and penalising \u2018take fouls\u2019. A take foul is one in which the defender does not make a play on the ball \u201cduring a transition scoring opportunity or immediately following a change of possession and before the offensive team had the opportunity to advance the ball\u201d. The exception is in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime.<\/p>\n
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The new penalty for such a foul is one free throw, which may be attempted by any player on the offended team in the game at the time the foul was committed, along with continued possession by the offended team.<\/p>\n
But the league also hopes that defenders making plays on the ball in those situations leads to exciting plays, whether the gamble leads to the offensive team getting an easy score or results in the defensive team cashing in a turnover.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of our best play at the NBA is defensive basketball. We don\u2019t want to discourage that; in fact, we think this rule will encourage that because now we\u2019re asking you to make a legitimate play on the ball,\u201d said Monty McCutchen, the NBA\u2019s Senior Vice President overseeing referees and training.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom that standpoint, we think more exciting basketball is on the horizon and these transition scoring opportunities \u2014 both defensively and offensively \u2014can be highlight plays. We\u2019ve lost some of that and we think this rule is going to inject that exciting play back into our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cOur players and our coaches, they\u2019re good at their jobs, They\u2019re good at their jobs, because they\u2019re committed at their jobs. They absolutely will stop doing this if we\u2019re consistent in our work, which I fully anticipate us being. They\u2019ll then know how to coach it properly. And therein lies the glory of transition basketball being reinjected into our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other points of education this season are holdovers from recent years, such as players having freedom of movement in both the post and on the perimeter, setting proper screens, avoiding travels and having \u201crespect for the game\u201d \u2014 often meaning not being overly demonstrative toward referees or others when a call doesn\u2019t go their way.<\/p>\n
Bench conduct will be more closely monitored as well, after an up-tick in recent years of players standing in their bench areas during play and often encroaching on the sideline or baseline \u2014 getting perhaps a bit too close to the action.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s going to be a little bit of a change,\u201d McCutchen said. \u201cWe want players on the bench to be able to react spontaneously to exciting basketball play. But it\u2019s important that they not stand the whole game, because now you\u2019re getting into game integrity issues, injury possibility for game participants, we want to eliminate all that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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