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Old Wed Feb 08, 2023, 12:21pm
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Lots Of Four Second Counts ...

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.

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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.
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... 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.
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Old Sat Feb 18, 2023, 08:54pm
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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.
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Old Sun Feb 19, 2023, 10:44am
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Tennis Anyone ???

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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.
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