Shot Clock Reset

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Originally Posted by rockyroad

Just wondering why you think that rule should be changed???

Do you think that a pass that is deflected by the defense and hits the rim and is grabbed by the offense again should somehow reward the offense by giving them more time? I don't get what you are thinking here...

it should be changed for two reasons:

1) we are relying on the judgement (and rules knowledge) of the shot clock operator to determine what is and is not a shot. (that usually doesn't work so well and causes more problems than we all would like). the shot clock operator should only have to decide: "did the ball hit the rim or not" rather than "did it hit the rim or not?...it did? was that a legal shot or something else?"

2) when the ball hits the rim and is erroneously reset, one of two things happen: a) the officials do not notice and we continue playing (so we're not really following the rule anyway), or b) the officials have to stop the game (thereby taking a scoring opportunity out of the hands of the offensive team), figure out what time "should" be on the clock (usually the table and game officials do not know exactly), and then we've got to restart the game (w/ a small amount of time left on the shot clock) and now we have the coaches yelling at the table personnel (as well as us).......

there's a simple, logical fix: ball hits the rim = shot clock gets reset. i would prefer that the shot clock operator only have to decide: "did the ball hit the rim or not?" rather than also have to decide: "by rule, was that a legal shot or something else?"

the NCAA rule book is 2-3 times thicker than the NBA rule book. it needs to be simplified and this is one rule that can easily be changed.