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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Each organization represents a different level of player. I do not expect HS kids to be as knowledgeable or competent as a player at the NCAA level. Nor would I expect the officials and coaches to have the same level of competence at the HS level that they do at the college level. It would be a disaster to have all rules and all philosophies applied to both HS and college games. There is even a reason NCAA Men’s and NCAA Women’s basketball rules are different. You cannot make one size fit all and make that work.
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This position is very reasonable: basketball isn't the same for 8-11 year old players, 12-15, 16-19 and so on. Yes, it's basically the same game: throw the ball into the basket and defend in order your opponents don't do it. But the skills of the
players are different.
FIBA wants that all basketball games played under their authority share the same rules, whether they are pro games in Italy, Croatia, Russia and so on or middle school games in Norway, Burkina Faso and China.
This way of thinking is wrong, IMO (which has nothing to do with different grades of "civilization", of course): simply, middle schoolers don't need some rules that are made for pro games (24 seconds, for example) or they need modified versions of those rules. When they grow up, they'll be able to play faster and better, with greater competence both about play and rules.
That's why coaches at a lower level are allowed to call time-outs (I believe this happens in FED, doesn't it?) while at higher levels they can't. In FIBA players are not allowed to call time-outs, for example, only coaches.
Moreover, having a monolithical rule set forces local organizations to set their own variations to the rules: this happens all the time in Italy, where it is not required to have a shot clock for most middle and high school level games, with the effect that the shot clock rule is different than the one in the book.
Why FIBA has had a stupid shot clock rule for many years? (The shot clock was reset at the release of the try.) Just because they felt difficult to have a "more-difficult-to-implement" rule in all their world.
At the same time I think that having scores of different rule sets is not a good service to our game, nor having different signals for the same violation or foul (like for NCAA men and women): is Nevada high school basketball so different from Iowa's to justify different rule sets?
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