Notes from a recent ref clinic

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by bballref3966

The solution for defending against a team that plays stall ball is simple: stop sitting back and come out to force a closely guarded count.

Why should they? The defending team might be happy with the other team not even trying to score. Isn't defense's primary goal to prevent the other team from scoring?

In the case of the Oregon game I referred to, the defending team was ahead and were probably going to win no matter how the game was played since they had a player the other team just couldn't match up with. They didn't need possession. If there were to dramatically spread out trying to cover the ball at the division line, that could give the other team the lucky opportunity they wanted.

I'm not a huge fan of a shot clock for HS, but if anything is to be done to prevent multi-minute stalls, it has to be a shot clock.