Thread: mercy rule
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Old Wed Apr 09, 2003, 06:41pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Thumbs down I hate this suggested rule.

I do not like them at all. Basketball is not football, where players can get seriously hurt if the game continues. Basketball is not baseball, where someone can lose their arm for keep playing. In Basketball the clock pretty much runs anyway. It only stops for dead ball situation, and basically that does not take that much time if the officials keep the game going. I could see a team with a lead, then doing everything to just waste time. At least in a football game, we have the ready for play that still teams have to keep moving (delay of game rule). If this happens with just one side of the ball, I think the rule does not benefit everyone.

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