Saturday, May 27, 2006

Hack a (insert your favorite bad foul shooter here)

For the sake of basketball, the Pistons and Heat should make a pact. They should agree to either: a) just have a foul shooting contest between Shaquille O'Neal and Ben Wallace to decide the series or b) agree that both teams won't intentionally send either Shaq or Ben to the line, at least not obviously – if either player is making a move and you don't want him to get an easy lay-up, foul him, but don't grab him out by the 3-pt line. Hack-a-Shaq and Hack-a-Ben is effective, if you block out, but it's not fun to watch and it's, essentially, a wash if both teams do it. At one point, Shaq and Ben sat down so they wouldn't be fouled ... that's not basketball.

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