Cole cut Clarkston Owen wanted to laugh after watching it
In today’s Warriors match against basketable nets, Cole sacrificed “hack-a-Shaq” and sent basketable Nets center Clarkston to freethrow line many times. The latter sent 15 penalties to 6 out of the game..
Among them, in the second game, Clarkston won seven free throws (7 middle 2). During this period, the Warriors attacked frequently, but basketable nets of offensive tempo were disrupted. Regardless of the results, the Warrior’s hack-a-Shaq of Clarkston was successful for a period of time.
Then what is hack-a-Shaq? My cousin will take you to see the past life of “shark cutting” today.
“Hack-a-Shaq”, as its name implies, was a tactic invented for big shark O’Neal. During the three successive championships period of the Lakers, many teams were afraid of O’Neal’s dominance in the internal line, so they will take advance foul strategy for O’Neal who has no ball in hand and send him to freethrow line.
In 2000, the Mavericks played two games with the Lakers. Old Nelson, then the Mavericks coach, sent someone to take turns to bag clip O’Neal, making constant fouls and sending O’Neal to freethrow line.
In those two games, the Mavericks committed 63 fouls in total and gave O’Neal 39 free throws, but O’Neal only hit 16 of them.
O’Neal once scolded Nelson in an interview: “Despicable! Like a clown!”
Old Nelson didn’t care about O’Neal’s abuse. He even raised “hack-a-Shaq” to a theoretical level: when you repeatedly foul a player with a low free throw hit rate, the effect of defense is often better than that of conventional defense.
The alliance’s first response:
NBA sets up a new rule for no-ball foul: if the defender commits such foul to players who have no ball and have no preparation for controlling the ball 2 minutes before the end of the game, the attacking party can take free throws (once or twice) after the ball is retained.
Peak development:
In May, 2008, O’Neal played for the Sun playoffs against Spurs of GDP. During the game, under the command of head coach Popovich baby, Spurs the players continued to foul O’Neal in the ball-free state and sent him to freethrow line.
In the whole series, O’Neill’s free throw hit rate was only 50%, and Spurs destroyed the offensive tempo of the sun in this way.
In the following years, hack-a-Shaq was used more and more frequently. According to statistics, in the 2015-16 season, the “shark cutting” event increased 16 times than five seasons ago, from the 2014-15 season to the 2015-16 season, the number of times the team used to cut Sharks increased 2.5 times.
The second modification rule of the alliance:
During the off-season in 2016, the NBA board of directors of “unbearable” passed three rule reforms in one breath in order to limit “hack-a-Shaq” in the new season.
The new regulations will be implemented in the 2016-17 season. Details are as follows:
1. In the last two minutes of any game (or any overtime), the team who is deliberately fouled can get one penalty and one throw. In other words, it is forbidden to chop people in the last two minutes of any section, but at any other time.
2. The new regulations stipulate that any defensive foul will be sentenced to a foul (one penalty and one throw) if the ball has not been issued, including some “legal” or “natural” basketball actions, such as defensive players trying to break through cover.
3. If the action of “cutting people” is dangerous, for example, the defensive player jumps on the opponent’s back intentionally, the foul player should be accused of malicious foul.
To sum up, “Hack-a-Shaq” has become a conventional weapon for NBA teams coaching board since it was invented by old Nelson.
This kind of tactics sometimes does play a “miracle”. On the one hand, it can greatly interfere with the psychology of the opponent players and disrupt the tactical arrangement of the opponent’s team, but how to use this tactic tests the coach’s ability very much.
Now with the improvement of players’ free throws, this tactic has been used less and less. After all, in today’s NBA, free throws are so miserable that there are indeed only a few players who can make the opponent use this tactic.