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Originally Posted by JRutledge
None of this is going to change the skill of the players. You still have to make shots.
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Amen. If you can't shoot, making teams shoot in less time just means more bad shots.
I'm a numbers geek so I looked at a few things:
*3 of the top 6 scoring teams in men's D1 history for a single season played before the shot-clock/3-point line (UNLV in '75-76 and '76-77 and Oral Roberts in '71-72). The other three were the Loyola Marymount teams from '87-90 and they started shooting when they walked into the gym.
*11 of the top 15 single-season FG% teams in men's D1 history played before the shot-clock/3-point line. Of the four that didn't, only one played with
both the shot-clock and the 3-point line (Michigan's '89 championship team) and at that time the shot-clock was 45 seconds.
What that says to me is if you have the talent and you can shoot, score and run a decent offense, you'll do it regardless of whether there's a shot-clock. The UNLV teams in the mid-70s averaged just over 100 PPG with no shot-clock and only scoring by 1s and 2s. Walking the ball up the court + allowing players to beat the hell out of each other = less scoring.