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Originally Posted by bainsey
Here's my concern: If you get a shot clock for every varsity, JV, and freshmen game (they'd likely pass on middle schools), you'd be dealing with a lot more coaching complaints and table errors than time expirations.
"Why was/wasn't the clock reset? They did/didn't get possession of the ball!"
For all of the complaining about stall ball, there'd be a lot more complaining about more serious issues, like errors that could actually affect a game.
By the way, Panther, I'm guessing you've been to the Bangor Auditorium, and you're right. Stall ball indeed happens, but I always say it takes two teams to stall. If you don't want your opponent to stall, go get the ball. You might just come up with it.
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Disagree... Even at freshmen games with a "bad" table crew, there are usually a maximum of 4-5 corrections / questions in a game. Once everybody gets the hang of it, which may take longer/shorter for different people, it's really not that hard.
And once officials get the hang of it and are watching for the right things, it only takes 5 seconds to walk/talk to the table and say "Please set the shot clock to [insert number] seconds." I think that guys in non-shot clock states who made the jump to NCAA would agree with that. And again, this does not happen very often in a 32/40 minute game.