Rules committee boss: Men's college hoops headed for 30-second shot clock

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Originally Posted by Adam

He's pushing for FIBA rules.

At some point, there's going to be diminishing returns. Why not just make the shot clock 15 seconds if all we care about is scoring?

Probably some validity to that argument if you just want more possessions then going below 24 obviously does the same thing.

I just feel like going from 35-30 and using the argument we are doing it to increase scoring is setting yourself up to be challeneged as based on your current scoring rates the numbers of possessions you are increasing isn't going to get you enough more points for people to feel the pain/implementation is worth it. Changing the clocks, facilities, rules, the way teams play, and recruit is not going to be worth it and in some cases won't happen over 4-5 points per game to each side. If you are talking about double digit point totals on each side and a dramatic shift in ways you breakout, run offense, having players create and take shots then you are going to requie buy in from coaches and players to adapt and fans can see a noticeable change.

I don't think the shot clock by itself improves your game. As others have stated if players and coaches don't adapt then you've jsut got more poor shooting and poor shot selection. Now if you change enough rules or adapted the clock far enough to change coaching habuts, recruiting philiosophies and style of play then you will see the game improve and scoring increase.

You could go down to 15 but everyone is going to be out of a job because no one knows how to coach or what that version of basketball looks like. We know what 35 wth the current rule set looks like and people are complaing about the visual and quality of product. 24 and whether its rule sets like FIBA or NBA people know what that product looks like.