Make all shooting fouls 1 for 1

[Hoops]

I believe this is a good way to both speed up the game of basketball and also forces a player to earn every basket. When a superstar goes to the line he gets two free shots and its assuming had he not been fouled he would have made his basket.

The other thing this may do is limit the effect of "superstar calls" percentage wise players are still more likely to make the 2 free throws but it still puts on added pressure. If they get fouled on the three point line then its a 1-1-1 situation.

  You won't speed up the game, you'll worsen it. If you lessen the penalty for fouling then there will be more fouling, more  time at the foul line and much fewer actual made baskets.

Exactly. Mathematically, you'd foul every time down the court knowing that the most the other team would score is 1 point (assuming they're 100% on their free throws). So it simply devolves into a free throw shooting contest, not a basketball game.

A better suggestion might be to award 3 foul shots on 2-ptrs. and 4 foul shots on 3-ptrs. That would deter people from fouling and really open up the game. You can already see how that logic applies to fouling 3 pt. shooters. Coaches don't mind giving up a foul on a 2 pt. shot, but it's the sin of all sins to foul a 3 pt. shooter...

  Kind of an aside, but do people remember the "3 to make 2" foul shooting in the ABA? They had the same 1 and 1 for too many team fouls but if you got to  like double the penalty they gave an extra ft to the shooter if he missed one. Kind of a "don't go crazy with the fouls" rule.

Now that is worth at TP for teaching me something I didn't know. I had no idea they had a 3 to make 2 rule in the ABA. Thanks for that.

[newdusk]

Its a good point of teams fouling every time but in that case you can just lower the team limit and the amount of fouls a player is allowed. From 6 to 5. I don't think its such a radical idea. In the end you want a team to score 100+ points on field goals not free throws. If both teams make it to the free throw line 20 each times and 40% of their points are scored on the free throw line it does not make for an exciting game.