Trickery, Shenanigans and Officiating, w/Monty McCutchen

The Crossover NBA Show

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Basketball, Sports

4.6 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On the Friday edition, Howard Beck welcomes the NBA’s head of officiating, Monty McCutchen, to discuss all the rules tweaks for the 2021-22 season. The biggest change? A crackdown on offensive players drawing cheap fouls – with leg kicks, sideways leaps and other shenanigans.

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0:00.0	What up? It's the crossover pod Friday edition. I'm Howard Beck, senior writer for Sports Illustrated.
0:08.1	The new NBA season is nearly upon us, folks. And a new season, of course, means some new rules or rules interpretations or various tweaks and adjustments and points of emphasis for the game referees.
0:20.3	The biggest one this season, a crackdown on offensive players drawing fouls in various cheap and nefarious ways.
0:27.5	You know, the leg kicks and the side leg kicks and the sideways leaps and the forward leaps and the back flips and all these other forms of trickery and shenanigans and dark magic.
0:37.3	Refs are being instructed and trained this season to rein in that stuff.
0:41.9	They've heard all the complaints from other players and coaches and all of course, you
0:46.2	the fans who hate a lot of this, unless one of those guys happens to be your favorite player.
0:50.7	Some of those plays are going to be offensive fouls now, and some will just be non-calls.
0:56.4	So what's what? What's a foul? What's a non-call? How do they decide? Here to explain it all
1:00.8	today, the ever gracious head of officiating for the NBA, Monty McCutcheon. Monty, of course,
1:07.1	one of the NBA's best refs throughout his own career now serves as senior vice president
1:11.7	and head of referee development and training. That's a long title. Monty's always great in
1:17.1	explaining this stuff point by point. So we discussed the crackdown on the foul drawing shenanigans.
1:23.0	Also, the likely, not official yet, but likely change in replay rules on out of bounds place for the last two minutes.
1:30.3	All reports indicate that coaches' challenges will be able to review out of bounds place for the last two minutes,
1:37.3	but it will no longer be one of those automatic triggers or something generated by the referees.
1:42.1	A few other points that we'll get into also about refereeing this season.
1:45.9	For that discussion about offensive fouls, you can watch along.
1:49.9	There are four videos from last season that illustrate the new emphasis on these offensive
1:53.9	fouls and which I will reference in our conversation.
1:57.1	Those plays are on the NBA's Twitter feed at NBA official.
2:00.4	So go there first, folks. Go to feed at NBA official. So go there first, folks.
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