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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
I like the AP arrow (especially when compared to the alternative), but you can't take the 1/2 possession rule much further than statistical analysis --- trailing 1 with 1.3 seconds to go, you're not going to give a mouse's behind about 1/2 of a possession.
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If the best we can do is a held ball trailing by 1 at the end of a game, we don't deserve to win and we won't win. I really don't look at games by what happens in the last minute, other than obviously doing everything in my power to make that last minute work in our favor, ahead or behind. If you are in a one point game with a few seconds left, you are leaving a lot up to the whims of the basketball gods (and goddesses, Rainmaker!).
My outlook on a rule is not situational. It is either the right rule or it is not. Ad I think the held ball rule is not just a statisitical thing, it is the right way to adjudicate this specific situation where niether team has control. Time and score are irrelevant to the rule being the right rule. I may as well complain about having boundary lines if we step out with the ball down 1 with 1.3 left.