Ridiculously Low-Scoring Game ...

[BillyMac]

California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. And the District of Columbia.

[OKREF]

I've officiated both of these teams. The winning team ranked #3, other team #9. Guy coaching losing team has well over 700 wins. Get beat 80-50 or 4-2 and had a wide open 3 at the buzzer to win.

[Raymond]

Easy night for joints and muscles. A rest day.

[BillyMac]

I'm pretty sure that almost everybody, if not everybody, here will totally disagree with me, but I would enjoy watching, or officiating, a game such as this.

But not every night.

From the article: ... the absence of a shot clock can be somewhat of an equalizer between two teams with a significant talent disparity. A disciplined team can keep a game close against a team with much better players by slowing it down. Fewer possessions mean fewer opportunities for the better team to show why it’s so much better ... A stall offense can only work if there's nothing in place to prevent it and a trait of good coaching is the ability to maximize the rules to your advantage.

Originally Posted by OKREF

Guy coaching losing team has well over 900 wins. Get beat 80-50 or 4-2 and had a wide open 3 at the buzzer to win.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

... once observed a "from the get go" slow down game, a varsity game after my junior varsity game. Completely over matched small school against a big city school. Small school did lose, but gave itself a chance with a final score that ended up in the teens. Everybody in the stands was on the edge of their seats for the entire game.

How does one get these teenagers to be so disciplined? How does a high school coach inspire and teach such discipline?

As the shot clock spreads over the country, there will be fewer and fewer games like this, and eventually such slow-down, stall games will go the way of two-hand set shots, laced basketballs, peach baskets, and chicken wire cages around the perimeter of the court.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

From the article: ...[I] the absence of a shot clock can be somewhat of an equalizer between two teams with a significant talent disparity. A disciplined team can keep a game close against a team with much better players by slowing it down. Fewer possessions mean fewer opportunities for the better team to show why it’s so much better.

Seems you could achieve the same aim by the teams agreeing to play quarters of 30 seconds. And then they could play 10 games a meeting.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Seems you could achieve the same aim by the teams agreeing to play quarters of 30 seconds. And then they could play 10 games a meeting.

First team to win "six games" wins the "match". One sudden death overtime "game" if tied at "five games" each.

It will never fly.

[Blindolbat]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. And the District of Columbia.

Oregon will only start next season.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Blindolbat

Oregon will only start next season.

As will Connecticut, and possibly a few other states.