Kentucky coach John Calipari is never shy about telling the NCAA and others about how business should be conducted and how the game of basketball should be played. Cal will say or do anything that might give him an advantage during the course of a season or a game.
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While scoring saw an increase this season thanks to a shorter shot clock, Calipari thinks there's another way to get offenses to score a lot more points. He took to Twitter and his 1.5 million followers to explain the follies of some of the officiating in the NCAA.
You want scoring to go up? Automatic foul if the shooter is touched before his feet hit the floor. This my next mission.
— John Calipari (@CoachCalArk) July 10, 2016
It's obvious we are teaching this. There should be NO CONTACT TO THE BODY THROUGHOUT THE SHOT. Elbow, wrist tap, stomach tap, etc.
— John Calipari (@CoachCalArk) July 10, 2016
Everything in our game trickles down. Watching games this weekend and see that every close out to a jump shooter results in a foul.
— John Calipari (@CoachCalArk) July 10, 2016
He is referring to the Nike Peach Jam where it was all high schoolers playing and there were a ton of fouls for jump shooters because kids were doing exactly what he was talking about. Most of the kids who flopped on a shot after getting barely tapped got a foul call their way and that's because they've seen all the way up the ladder to the NBA.
It would be interesting to see if the rules committee decided to make that a point of emphasis this offseason. It would be nice to make sure that defenders are playing more cleanly after shots go up.
[h/t KSR]
