#NBA and #collegebasketball should implement a triple bonus policy of 15+ team fouls.

Basketball games are difficult to watch and appreciate from a fan’s perspective when one team is constantly committing personal fouls in the final minutes of the game in a desperate attempt to erase a deficit and achieve a comeback.

Currently, losing teams are free to commit an unlimited number of personal fouls to put the opposing team on the foul line in attempts to slow the game and to try to stage a come back. During these periods of relentless fouls and slowing the pace of the game, the game becomes difficult and painful to watch from the fans perspective.

To disincentivize this practice of relentless fouling in the final minutes of a basketball game, professional and college basketball should implement a triple bonus team foul policy of two free throw attempts and the ball out for the foul shooting or victimized team. This would speed up the final minutes of the game and would increase the enjoyment of viewing the game for fans. Television networks broadcasting or streaming the game would offer audiences a much better product, especially in the final minutes.

This triple bonus team foul policy would also force basketball teams and their players to become more discipline in the manner they play the game.

Fifteen total personal fouls are more than an adequate number of fouls to permit in a game. Effectively, every foul above fifteen would be treated like a technical foul, two free throw shots and retain possession of the ball.

It’s well past time to fix this part of the game that is painful to watch for fans.