Play the advantage
I'm an avid soccer fan. I watch a lot of Premier League and La Liga, a bit of MLS and most major international tournaments I can get my eyes on. There are many aspects of professional soccer I wish were applied (or could be applied, in certain cases) to professional basketball. Many of them are about how the game is consumed by a viewer on TV/Internet. For this purpose, however, I'm going to focus on rules or, to be more exact, how rules can be enforced in a way that is beneficial to the sport. In soccer, when a player is fouled by an opponent - by being, pushed, tackled or anything of the kind - different outcomes might happen. If the foul has caused the player to lose control of the ball in the following seconds or has effectively killed an opportunity for an attack, the referee will blow his whistle and bring back the play where the foul occurred for a free kick. If, however, the contact, illegal though as it may be, has not "stopped" the player and his team manage...