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Old Thu Jun 13, 2013, 03:16pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post
It may not happen due to all of the personalities involved but there really is no good reason for them to be different. They are really only different because neither side wants to compromise with the other over difference that don't matter.

At every single level, they could be made the same aside from the timing differences (different length game, shot clock, etc.), ball size, rim height, and maybe some court dimensions. None of those elements are playing rules. All of the playing rules should be 100% the same from pros to kids.

There are other sports where it is done and it can be done without much difficulty in just about every sport.
So you want the travel rules to be the exact same? You want contact in the post to be the same? You want the Technical applications to be the same? What about a 24 second shot clock? Better yet, you think the players could handle those rules differences?

And that does not include the many abilities of officials that cannot get basic rules right at the high school level, now you want to add complicated NCAA or NBA type applications as well? We have a hard enough time to get some basic contact being called a foul and now we want to add changes or better yet make those rules apply to HS kids to grown azz men? The NBA would be less fun to watch for the average public and NCAA and NF players would have a hard time adjusting when many players have a problem dribbling, let alone getting across the division line in 8 seconds.

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