John Stockton vs Isiah Thomas

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

It was a different game back then. While I like today's game better aesthetically than the 90s era, I do think the occasional "send a message foul" would do wonders to eliminate flopping, foul-baiting, and other antics we regularly see by the likes of Chris Paul.

Here is my "wish list" of changes to league rules:
- Maintain the stringent no hand-checking rule on the perimeter to continue rewarding the truly skilled ball handlers and change-of-speed guys (not really a change, but just feel like it encourages defensive fundamentals of moving your feet, something we were all taught as kids in basketball camp, while rewarding the most skilled and creative offensive players).
- Impose similar standards to guarding the post, such that skilled post players get similar treatment to skilled perimeter players. KAT would absolutely benefit from this.
- Review eliminating the corner 3 and extend the length of the rest of the 3-point line. The game of basketball should reward players skilled from all sorts of various distances. It's been skewed too far in one direction.
- Allow a coaches challenge or official review where a player is thought to blatantly simulate being fouled or engage in an unnatural act to draw a foul, with the penalty being a technical foul on the offender + one free throw for the opponent. The goal would be by simply having this provision in place, it would largely eliminate the shenanigans and there would be no need to even apply it much.