David Adelman would like to make a modification to the “challenge”

During the meeting in New York against the Knicks, David Adelman pulled out very, very quickly to accept his “challenge”. We are only in the fourth minute of the match. The Nuggets coach wins and thus receives the second and final “challenge”.

We will have to wait for an extension, as the evening will be extended for a 58-minute matchso he uses his second “challenge”. After a deflection off Christian Brown, OG Anunoby got his leg hooked on a Denver quarterback. The referees call a foul on assault. David Adelman can’t believe it and then asks for video verification. There are 90 seconds left in overtime.

The men in gray review the pictures and change their minds, believing that Christian Brown was not intentionally wrong. So, no whistle, but consequence: The Nuggets coach no longer has a “challenge” … but he also doesn’t hold the timeout that goes with it. We keep it only on the first use, if it is obtained.

“We have to change the rule”, Estimated by David Adelman faced with this observation. “I’m not saying it’s the referees’ fault, or the coaches’ fault. If I accept the challenge and win it in overtime, then I lose it, but I also lose the last time-out, and therefore control of the game. We have to look at this. If I win the challenge, with one minute left, I should be rewarded in some way. I should keep the time-out even when you lose. And that doesn’t allow me to control the match because I no longer have the means to stop the game.”

“It would be nice if I could take a time out after being right”

The requirement is clear: we must not limit timeout preservation to the use (and success) of the first “challenge”. “I know it’s a problem for coaches. I make a million mistakes, referees make mistakes. But we can fix that. It would be nice if I could take a timeout after I was right.”insists the technician.

Since then, has he hesitated to take this “challenge” into overtime, knowing he’ll lose a timeout no matter what, 90 seconds from the end of overtime? Did he weigh the pros and cons? Because it’s nothing to let go of your last weapon with so much time…

“It’s such an important move because it gives the Knicks back possession.”he describes. “If you do the math, there’s three possessions with 24 seconds left and they’d have two. That’s not possible. We’ve got to try to control the clock as much as possible in these situations and against a team that has Jalen Brunson. I don’t want to give them any more opportunities.” And David Adelman concludes that he thinks “that the league will probably come back to this in the summer”.