NBA defenders learning the hard way they can’t stop progress

The game is going on and everything looks normal and as it usually does when some NBA officials blows his whistle, calls a foul and everyone thinks, “oh, no, here we go again.”

The calls are flow-killers; they happen away from the ball where nobody seems to be watching except a referee and it’s taking everyone involved some time to get used to.

Tangling up an offensive player, like Toronto guard C.J. Miles does to Cleveland centre Kevin Love in this scene from last season’s playoffs, is a whole lot harder now, thanks to an NBA-wide crackdown.Maybe they will get used to it, maybe they won’t but right now, the new “point of education” around the league which places a strict prohibition on…