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Originally Posted by BryanV21
10. Playing the game in halves.
-I really don't know. Would this, or should this, affect the number of time outs a team gets? I mean, the time between the quarters (minus halftime) kind of acts as 6th and 7th TOs right now.
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I've seen it suggested (somewhere else on this forum) that the move to halves could be accompanied with a rule that an automatic, non-charged-to-a-team timeout be taken following the first foul or violation after the midpoint of the half (so, if you're playing 16-minute halves, the first foul/violation after at/below 7:59 on the clock).
MN doesn't do this, and I don't think there's any need to do this, but it would remove concerns about the "6th or 7th timeout" while having less of an interruption on the flow of the game.