Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode and Cody before we get started today with what we want to talk

about I did something I regret already I used Twitter.com have you ever used this app before?

Are we finally doing my episode idea or we just go through trending topics and just

extemporaneously speak on each of them?

Is that what today is?

I don't have the hard to do that.

I just wanted to start with one topic that we've talked about before I made a 29 minute documentary last summer on the evolution of

officiating and some things have been addressed a little bit this year.

I think in general, some of the foul hunting

for the players wasn't quite at a fever pitch

that it was at last season.

But as the season has progressed,

we have seen an uptick in, I think,

the frequency of shooting fouls called

in situations that just never would have been shooting files in the entire history of this sport at every level.

And there's one thing in particular I want to talk about which is the rip through before we get started but I don't know how you feel about this for my money I think I would like to see a little bit more perimeter contact allowed because the advances and offense are so great that not letting defenders

slide and work their butt off and move their feet and stay in front of the ball.

It just seems to be im how do you defend if you're not allowed to have any sort of like incidental contact as someone is literally trying to run by you toward the basket.

And so for me, I would like a little more contact there.

And then in terms of the points of emphasis

that they used to clean up, I just think this thing,

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