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Originally posted by Camron Rust
The same benefit applies to the shooting time. Ball rolling around the rim. They can jump up there and slam it home.
Encourages better shooting...if it's nothing but net, there's nothing to knock away.
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I assume you meant shooting "team". Either way it doesn't seem like a very good rule. A Ben Wallace type could just linger around the basket and stuff anything that touches the rim. In this case Big Ben would probably average 50 points and 20 blocks. (Statistical Question - Does it count as a block shot or a rebound?)
By the way does the USA team know that they can do this? They didn't seem to know a couple of the rule differences, like calling a time out. (At the end of a quarter the US team had 3 or 4 players surrounding the ref asking for a timeout and he was just ignoring them.)