Which had a greater impact on the NBA?

[verbaltelekinesis]

The no hand checking rule or allowing zone defenses?

Explain your choice

 

[606onit]

no handchecking....now young, skinny niccas be gettin OFF w/ little resistance.

 

[HIGHQuality]

no handchecking....now young, skinny niccas be gettin OFF w/ little resistance.

I see what you did there. But you used the wrong smiley.

is the right choice.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Don't have time to elaborate but hand checking is overrated, so it's the zone that had a bigger effect. Scoring on a zone is WAY more difficult than hand checking, Alex English and rail thin small forward from tr 80's scored over 20,000 points in the "hardcore" hand check era.

 

[SLCpremium]

Zone defense by far...changed the way the game was played...no more 1 on 1's...scoring changed..speed of the game changed...thank god for the three second rule

 

[Real Talk of NY]

whoa whoa. They dont even play a true zone in the NBA!! Not like college, or FIBA. What are yall nikkas thinking? Hand checking by far. Theres plenty of one on one in the NBA.

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

No hand check rule has had a bigger impact, IMO. It made it much easier for perimeter guys to score. Teams like the Bad Boy Pistons and Riley's Knicks would never have existed under the current rules.

Joe Johnson from the Atlanta Hawks was asked about the handchecking rule during the summer of 2010: “It benefits me,” said Joe Johnson, one of three players (Mike Bibby and Jamal Crawford are the others) on the Hawks’ roster who have averaged 20 or more points in a season. “It definitely changes the game because it gives every guy that extra step. “If we could hand check now, the game would be totally different,” Johnson said. “If they couldn’t hand check back in the day, there are some guys that would have been even better than they were. It would have been nuts for some of the big-time scorers and perimeter players from the 1980s and 1990s. Can you imagine what [Michael] Jordan would have done in a league where you couldn’t hand check.”

During a 2007 L.A. Lakers pre-season broadcast, Phil Jackson was asked how he thought Michael Jordan would perform today, Phil said: “Michael would average 45 with these rules.”

You can’t even touch a guy now,” says Charlotte coach Larry Brown, who also coached the 2004 Pistons defense… “The college game is much more physical than our game. I always tease Michael [Jordan], if he played today, he’d average 50.”

 

[Real Talk of NY]

No hand check rule has had a bigger impact, IMO. It made it much easier for perimeter guys to score.

Joe Johnson from the Atlanta Hawks was asked about the handchecking rule during the summer of 2010: “It benefits me,” said Joe Johnson, one of three players (Mike Bibby and Jamal Crawford are the others) on the Hawks’ roster who have averaged 20 or more points in a season. “It definitely changes the game because it gives every guy that extra step. “If we could hand check now, the game would be totally different,” Johnson said. “If they couldn’t hand check back in the day, there are some guys that would have been even better than they were. It would have been nuts for some of the big-time scorers and perimeter players from the 1980s and 1990s. Can you imagine what [Michael] Jordan would have done in a league where you couldn’t hand check.”

During a 2007 L.A. Lakers pre-season broadcast, Phil Jackson was asked how he thought Michael Jordan would perform today, Phil said: “Michael would average 45 with these rules.”

You can’t even touch a guy now,” says Charlotte coach Larry Brown, who also coached the 2004 Pistons defense… “The college game is much more physical than our game. I always tease Michael [Jordan], if he played today, he’d average 50.”

 

[HollywoodP]

Zone by far.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepmd2ygMK4"]2008 NBA FINALS: Kobe Bryant vs. Boston Celtics Zone Defense - YouTube[/ame]

Illegal Sophisticated defenses has made it much harder for players to score. Hand Checking was still quite common up until the 04-05 seasons when they made additional rules for it...tho you can still see some of it today. Granted it is still a very effective way to limit the defender...but it is drastically overrated...especially when its effects are compared to Zone Defenses. Its scary to think how easy Kobe would have scored in the 90s.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Definitely a zone. There's really no explanation needed to anyone who knows basketball.

 

[CHICAGO]

No hand check rule has had a bigger impact, IMO. It made it much easier for perimeter guys to score. Teams like the Bad Boy Pistons and Riley's Knicks would never have existed under the current rules.

Joe Johnson from the Atlanta Hawks was asked about the handchecking rule during the summer of 2010: “It benefits me,” said Joe Johnson, one of three players (Mike Bibby and Jamal Crawford are the others) on the Hawks’ roster who have averaged 20 or more points in a season. “It definitely changes the game because it gives every guy that extra step. “If we could hand check now, the game would be totally different,” Johnson said. “If they couldn’t hand check back in the day, there are some guys that would have been even better than they were. It would have been nuts for some of the big-time scorers and perimeter players from the 1980s and 1990s. Can you imagine what [Michael] Jordan would have done in a league where you couldn’t hand check.”

During a 2007 L.A. Lakers pre-season broadcast, Phil Jackson was asked how he thought Michael Jordan would perform today, Phil said: “Michael would average 45 with these rules.”

You can’t even touch a guy now,” says Charlotte coach Larry Brown, who also coached the 2004 Pistons defense… “The college game is much more physical than our game. I always tease Michael [Jordan], if he played today, he’d average 50.”

ILL TAKE THEIR WORDS...

LOL @ POSTING A VIDEO SHOWING KOBE CONSTANTLY
IGNORE HIS WIDE OPEN TEAMMATES TO TAKE CONTESTED SHOTS.

LOOKED LIKE THE 04 FINALS...


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[ghostwriterx]

Don't have time to elaborate but hand checking is overrated, so it's the zone that had a bigger effect. Scoring on a zone is WAY more difficult than hand checking.

And you're basing this on?

 

[NYC Rebel]

And you're basing this on?

Multiple players making it difficult to navigate or find a clearing for an open shot compared to the handcheck era which saw player after player still score at will.

Not EVERY player was good at using a handcheck. But its a lot easier to know how to double off of a zone.

You dudes make the handcheck seem like the kung fu grip of death.

 

[SLCpremium]

Zone by far.
2008 NBA FINALS: Kobe Bryant vs. Boston Celtics Zone Defense - YouTube

Good vid on zone defense.....fukk kobe tho!

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Multiple players making it difficult to navigate or find a clearing for an open shot compared to the handcheck era which saw player after player still score at will.

Not EVERY player was good at using a handcheck. But its a lot easier to know how to double off of a zone.

You dudes make the handcheck seem like the kung fu grip of death.

Good points. Handchecking was a skill that only good defenders could take advantage of anyway. The best handcheckers were guys like Jordan and Derek Harper, great defenders regardless.

A zone can hide defensive deficiencies for an entire team simultaneously.