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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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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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