For how long?

I will be watching the Thunder games with great interest to see if this happens.

Like other major points of focus, this will probably last like a month of being called aggressively before regressing again. Has the NBA had a point of emphasis over the last few years that’s actually stuck for the season? The last big one I can remember them trying is flopping and after a bit it the refs didn’t care to even look like they were trying to uphold that rule.

Remember the flopping techs? Yeah, this is going to last three weeks tops.

Jayson Tatum about to average 15

SGA about to be SGAverage

This could actually make the Celtics and Sixers tough watches for as long as it lasts.

Shit Toumani Camara’s gonna get 200 offensive fouls called on opponents this season isn’t he.

Would have been nice 16 years ago, would have stopped LeBron from so many brute force drives where he fouls

You know how you can remember every specific time in your life that you got a compliment from a stranger you thought was attractive? That’s what this is like. To the NBA they’re just saying shit, but to fans who hear this it’s a rush of endorphins. Unfortunately just like with those random encounters in your life, nothing comes of it and you’re still just yelling at the refs for letting SGA push off in game 3 of the regular season.

Tatum does this all game with no repercussions

These changes last a month max.  Seen it too many times.

Maybe I’m just too unobservant or don’t understand the nuances of basketball motion (never my best sport lmao) but the “should be  called” and “should not be called” still seem pretty arbitrary to me. But maybe that’s the point? lol

Still laughing about windy saying the refs (or whatever ) told him it’s OK to use your arm to engage the  defenders  body in order to use it  decelerate yourself (or something like that)

Feel free to ELI5, or not cuz subjective lol

I sense incoming flops from off arm contact increasing this season.

I get what they’re trying to do, but I’m personally not a fan. Guys are just gonna start avoiding contact because essentially any contact initiated by the offense will be called a foul. It would lead to defenders just controlling ball handlers everywhere they go. There’s now no answer for defenders body bumping offensive players, there’s nothing handlers can do to protect themselves. The driving angles are gonna completely change because guys will drive wider to avoid contact, every snatchback or same foot stop or whatever is gonna be called an offensive foul, etc. . It’s gonna completely change the way the game is played

those first couple games of tatum and JB getting 5 fouls at halftime would have been such a great hatewatch

It’ll be back to normal by Christmas imo

Sga does it legally, the fact that’s he comfortably able to do it in fiba games, which this sub claims to have superior refs, proves it.

So now that Shaivonte Aician Gilgeous-Alexander is on the way for 3 straight MVPs, they finally come out with the patch notes to try nerfing him to oblivion.

Thunder fans are suddenly mia lol

Jokic MVP loading

I’d they enforced this Ginnias would greatly struggle to get to the rim lmao

nba officiating putting out explainer videos before preseason starts makes sense to prep refs early

It will happen for a few weeks and then we’re back to forearms and stiff arms. Players are going to keep doing it and the refs will get tired of calling it before Thanksgiving.

This will be enforced against all players or selectively only with certain players and teams allowed and enforced on the rest like in the past seasons.

Looking at Refs records and history, it strongly suggests the selective enforcement..

That video was wild

That video makes it look legal if the arm doesn’t extend. but some dudes have lots of power in the just the “chicken wing”

I think we have seen lots of such instruction that lasts a week or two then right back to the usual…

For the first 10 games

Finally. This should have been an influence back in 2025 when OKC built an offense around it.

Creates an interesting problem because if you’re dribbling the ball and creating contact you obviously have pressure on that arm. When you stop that arm tends to go out when the pressure from the defender releases. It’s a pretty tough foul to call and I think there will be some issues.

Wait, so the offensive player will actually have to use moves to get around a defender instead of just driving straight through them?

Same as every “rule crackdown” this will last about a week.

Fucking hooray

Well only one player in the league actually does it!!!!!!! /s