The ACB has announced two new changes to the rules of the game that will be applied in all the official matches of the 2022/23 season and that will serve to give “more fluidity and continuity to the game”: quick serves and more weight from coaches on instant replays (Instant Replay), to limit referee reviews during matches and reduce interruptions.
In the case of serves, it won’t be necessaryduring the first 38 minutes of the match, that the referees touch the ball before a throw-in or baseline in the attacking team’s own half, allowing players to put the ball in motion without interruption, to “encourage quick transitions and fast breaks,” according to the ACB.
Thus, the referees will only continue to touch the ball during the first 38 minutes in actions in the offensive or defensive field, always after an action that requires signaling to the table, disputing the last two regulatory minutes and the extensions in the same usual way.
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FIBA itself, in addition, recently validated this change of norm for the competitions organized by the ACB, allowing its start-up this same campaign.
Dos ‘challenges’
Secondly, the ACB will increase the number of “challenges” to two or queries from each coach, who will keep them or lose them if the referee team changes its decision, and will limit queries for referee review unless the technicians claim.
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Time is capital here again, since all changes will be effective during the first 38 minutes of the match, excluding the last two and also the extensions, when the coaches will lose one of their two “challenges” and the referees will be able to resort to instant replay for everything.
With this new rule, cases such as the review of fouls (when it is checked if it is normal or unsportsmanlike) are always subject to the claim of the trainers.
