Joe Mazzulla: NBA Should Have a Powerplay and Bring Back Fighting
On Tuesday’s edition of Zolak and Bertrand, Joe Mazzulla who’s the Head Coach of the Boston Celtics, joined the show. While hypothesizing some changes that the NBA should make, Mazzulla floated around the idea of the NBA instituting a powerplay, and also bringing back fighting.
“I Wish You Could Bring Back Fighting...”
Bertrand: All right, let’s pretend we’re in an alternate universe for a second. Years from now in the NBA, we’ve been kicking around some proposed rule changes in the league.
Joe Mazzulla: I love this.
Bertrand: Credit to Nick Wright, who has talked a lot about this on his show, and we played a clip from him earlier. How would the game change if the corner three was taken away and the arc went to the sidelines? I don’t know. Let’s call it seven, eight feet from the baseline. What happens if the corner three disappears?
Joe Mazzulla: First of all, is let’s entertain more important rules that would make the game better.
Bertrand: We could do that too. What do you got? You have some proposals.
Zolak: Come on.
Joe Mazzulla: Hey, I mean, basketball is one of the only sports that doesn’t have a power play. I think soccer just put in the ‘blue card’ where a Guy has to go off and it’s a 10 on 9. Like we should have a power play. Because let’s say you have a technical or let’s say you get a take foul, and you get the one shot, but you’re not really you’re not really rewarded for that because if you miss it, you don’t get the reward for that take foul. So there should be like a power play where on a take foul or on a technical, you have to play five on four for five seconds or three passes.
Bertrand: Or what about for an entire possession? What if for the entire possession, it’s five on four.
Joe Mazzulla: I mean, that might be a little extreme, but I think we should institute power plays where instead of taking the ball out on the side, the guy goes to the other side of halfcourt and he can’t leave it until like three seconds.
Bertrand: I love this. That’s an awesome idea.
Joe Mazzulla: So I think the biggest thing that we rob people from as an entertainment standpoint is you can’t fight anymore. I wish you could bring back fighting.
Bertrand: I mean, I’m not against that. I’m not I’m not against those days in the NBA.
Joe Mazzulla: I mean, you aren’t talking about robbing the league of entertainment. What’s more entertaining than when there is a little scuffle?
Zolak: I agree.
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