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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
None of that really matters.....24 seconds is really just an arbitrary threshold. If they wanted a team to take no more than 24 seconds, the would require it to hit the rim by 24 seconds but they don't.
24 seconds was chosen solely in an effort to achieve a certain number of points per game.....that's all.
Sure, it would change the result of a few plays, but it does so in a way that doesn't really matter.
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My research long ago showed that some man way back in the 50s divided the length of a game by the number of possessions in a typical. His result led to the common 24 second shot clock.
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 09:39pm
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