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Originally Posted by Rich
I would be thrilled if new HS courts were built 94x50. The longer court, IMO, makes for a better game.
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I'm going to agree with this 100%. Last week a conference tournament game that was played at a local university. This league is our 1A (smallest) league and was a boys game. One of the boys team plays in a converted elementary school and their gym is literally the smallest gym I've ever seen for a varsity contest. I couldn't get a flow to the game as it was way, way too compressed. Wasn't happy how I called that game back in early January...
Now fast forward to the tournament game it was played on a college court and I commented to my partner at a TO about 'wonderful, wonderful spacing' Court was so wide there wasn't a ton of contact with a lot of freedom to move around.
What even helped more is the teams in the first half decided to play a stall ball type of offense and the first half I swear only took about 20 minutes. Now on the flip side on that college court was that it was longer and it makes for a nice run. If the teams really wanted to push it it would have made for a tiring game and we only do 2 man here.....