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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I wish there was a way to eliminate the intentional fouls near the end of games at times.
Feel like that game would have been more fun of an ending if once the Knicks got up by 3 they couldn't just foul to send the Sixers to the line to shoot 2.
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Elam ending solves this (with a certain amount of time into the fourth quarter (10 minutes, probably), the game clock is turned off and a target score of leading team + 8 points is introduced). I normally hate the idea of different rules in a certain part of the game, but this so nicely fixes something that is extremely broken in the current NBA game. Fouling (except when fouling a bad freethrow shooter) is never the right strategy under the elam ending, and no matter what the deficit is, there's always a chance a trailing team goes on an insane run to come from behind and win the game.
I doubt think the NBA ever actually adopts it because they don't deeply care that the end of a close game slows down to a crawl, because the stoppages are better for advertising. However, they have tested it in the g-league for two straight years (as well as the all-star game, which sucks as a test environment because the elam ending assumes that teams are highly motivated to win). So there's at least *some* chance it gets implemented.