New rules -advantage OU or not?

[jaymOU]

This may have been discussed before, but with all of the athletes OU has it guard, don't you think OU will benefit?

Woodard, Cousins and Heild should be able to blow by people and create open shots for Cam and Hornbeak. If you can't put hands on people, then it will be more difficult to guard the quicker, more athletic players. It would seem to give Cam an advantage at the 4, Heild at the 3 and either Cousins or Woodard at the 1.

Of course, I wonder how long the new rules will be in effect? As conference play begins will the physical nature of college basketball start to creep back in?

 

[BoulderSooner]

This may have been discussed before, but with all of the athletes OU has it guard, don't you think OU will benefit?

Woodard, Cousins and Heild should be able to blow by people and create open shots for Cam and Hornbeak. If you can't put hands on people, then it will be more difficult to guard the quicker, more athletic players. It would seem to give Cam an advantage at the 4, Heild at the 3 and either Cousins or Woodard at the 1.

Of course, I wonder how long the new rules will be in effect? As conference play begins will the physical nature of college basketball start to creep back in?

cousins is no longer playing the 1 .. he is a wing .. hornbeak is the other point guard

 

[ArdmoreSooner]

I would think it would benefit OU and its style of play. Especially in the post area. If that is cleaned up then it has to favor OU's smaller, quicker post players. Will be interesting to see how much it changes the game this year. Be real interesting for Big X type schools who are thought of as more methodical

 

[WTSooner]

A little of both. I could see it helping us on offense, though if our guards aren't as threat to hit jumpers (thinking Cousins here, specifically), the defense doesn't have to close as fast, making driving the ball more difficult, speed or not.

On defense, I think LK wanted to play more pressure/trapping, and sometimes that leads to the hand checks and all that. Just look at KU. Most opposing teams would probably say they played a pretty physical brand of defense. Will that still be the case?

At the end of the day, I really don't think this rule change will help/hurt most teams moreso than others.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Don't know If it benefitted us or not but these new rules are garbage. Horrible idea


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[slappy in OP]

The new rules will benefit any team that can make FTs consistently.

I am torn on calling them garbage. One one hand, I hate that all the fouls break the game up too much. Gaining continuity is difficult. On the other hand, I HATED the fact that college basketball had 43-38 type games last year. Who wants to watch a game where 40 points are scored by a team b/c the other team could hand check them to death.

There needs to be some spot between how it was last year and how it has been called this year so far. I hope the new rules will get called a little differently as the year plays out.

 

[Soonerdlk]

I don't know that all of the fouls were the result of the "new rules". The 2nd half was called completely different from the 1st half. Any time both teams are in the penalty with 10 minutes to go in the half, the refs are out of control. Many of the fouls called had no contact at all (a Gibbs and 1 is a great example). Certainly it was a benefit to us on some of our drives as well. I just think the refs "wanted to get control of the game" and started blowing the whistle. It was brutal to watch.

 

[MsProudSooner]

The only 'new rule' is the change to the charging call. Otherwise, they are just enforcing rules that have been in place forever.