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Are you for reducing the shot clock (and by how much)?

Keep it at 35 seconds
6
30%
Reduce it to 30 seconds
10
50%
Reduce it to 24 seconds
4
20%
 
Total votes: 20
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Post by MajBugman » Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:44 pm

MJatUM wrote:Fair point. I did not mean it as a blanket statement that all games would be less scoring, but (IMO) giving a team the opportunity to sit on the ball at the end of a game is ridiculous, even if it only happens 5 times all season.

Could you imagine a team that is down by 2 having to foul with 3 minutes left in a game because the opponent can spread it out and pass the ball around the perimeter?
Oh, I agree completely. Shot clock good. Shorter shot clock better.
Raise the bar, do the minimum.
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Post by JoleonLescottsHair » Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:17 pm

MJatUM wrote:^Thank you. The examples and thought you put into your answer has swayed me. Don't know what I was thinking. :roll: :roll:
No problem, but I will help you further; you were "thinking" like a real condescending prick with your smug and dismissive "terrible idea fwiw" parenthetical. How's that for some thought and examples? Pretty simple.
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Post by MJatUM » Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:29 pm

Woof.
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Post by cox'n » Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:50 pm

I was really fond of the 45 second shot clock. I wish they'd go back to it.
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Post by UMass87 » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:10 am

I didn't like the shot clock when it was introduced but have come around some in the thirty years since it was introduced into college ball. What I like about it, though, is not that it encourages shooting (which, at 35 seconds with ten seconds to get over half-court, it really doesn't) but that it rewards strong defense. I'm happy with the balance the 35-second shot clock creates. What I don't like is sports changing rules to encourage scoring (see the DH rule).
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