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FIBA basketball, as we have seen in the World Cup and even more at the start of Spanish competitions, has gotten into a regulatory labyrinth that requires a revision, in our opinion, so that it does not end up distorting the game and its results. In large part, it seems born of a double circumstance: the unsportsmanlike rule and instant replay . Combined, we are seeing that in too many cases a slightly convoluted hitch - for example, because one of the two players stumbles or falls - ends, after a long review of the video, classified as an unsportsmanlike personal foul, with the heavy burden that this means for the sanctioned team. Free throws and possession.

As it was conceived, the unsportsmanlike personnel tried first of all to stop the axes that avoided easy baskets in transition. But its wording, defining as such any fault in which the defender does not try to clearly reach the ball that the attacker carries or dribbles, becomes a trap: many faults can be defined as such.

It will be for this reason, for the time - more and more - that is lost with the review of the video or for whatever, a consequence in the opinion of this chronicler seems to be that the referees are tolerating many other contacts, we will say "less conflicting", that occur in a match. If it is a simple swipe, a slap, a mid-court crash ... many times you can keep playing. In other times, those faults would have been sanctioned, but Damocles' sword of the video and the unsportsmanlike one seems to be weighing on the spirit of the referees. And the basketball gets blurred, gets dirty and moves away from its true spirit.

It may be a passing slip, but perhaps a more precise wording of the unsportsmanlike and its casuistry would help define the sanctions and free the referees somewhat to clean the rest of the game without fear of the eternal arrests and checks. When the tolerance of the grabs rose, in the NBA of the Detroit Bad Boys , the game became impoverished and lost followers. Let's not reinvent ourselves a similar mistake in FIBA ​​basketball, when it is in one of its best moments. Cleaning is what has always differentiated basketball from other ball sports.

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