We are roughly 10% through the NBA season, and everyone, including the Phoenix Suns, are still to get used to the new coach’s challenge rule.
At first, I was excited for this change and even imagined Monty Williams practicing his replay arm twirl in the mirror. I felt allotting one per game was a bit limiting, but the spirit of the rule was in the right place.
After all, even though the league puts publicly criticizing referees’ performance right next to trade tampering, manslaughter, and testing positive for a diuretic among the worst crimes one could commit, ultimately league executives know refs are just humans stumbling their way through their job like anyone else.