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NCAA MBB Proposes Shorter Shot Clock, Fewer Time Outs


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After a college basketball regular season marked by low scoring, slow tempo, overly physical play and an endless stream of late-game timeouts, the sport's powerbrokers are making changes aimed to make the game more appealing.

On Friday, the men's basketball rules committee announced that it would recommend shortening the shot clock from 35 seconds to 30, increase the restricted area arc in front of the basket from three feet to four feet, and three changes aimed at reducing timeouts.
The strategy is simple: A shorter shot clock is expected to lead to more possessions, a faster pace of play and perhaps an increase in scoring. Expanding the charge circle should reduce the low-post collision rate.
For timeouts, the recommendation are to reduce timeouts from five to four, with no more than three carrying over from the first to the second half; quicker resumption of play coming out of timeouts and player disqualifications; disallowing coaches from calling timeouts in live ball situations; and making a timeout called within 30 seconds of a media timeout stand for the media timeout.
In addition, the committee wants officials to be able to review shot clock violations on made field goals at any point in a game. And the committee recommended lifting the ban on dunks in pre-game warmups. Finally, the committee wants officials be able to penalize players for faking fouls, or diving.

 

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None of these rules will increase FG% or reduce turnovers. So none of these changes will make it a better game.

 

Won't disagree with that. It should help the game flow better but doesn't improve the quality.

 

In theory, expanding the restricted area should help scoring a little bit but I hate that rule. Don't think it should be there at all.

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Nor will it help with the endless parade to the foul line at the end of a game. There's just something wrong with a sport when the penalty for breaking the rules is statistically worth it. I can think of very few other instances in other sports. In baseball an intentional walk can be a good move, but you wouldn't do it over and over. In football you might take a safety when 2 points don't really matter and you don't want to risk a blocked punt recovered in the end zone, but again you'll almost never do that twice. Pass interference when a defender is going to be beaten for a long pass is about the only other one, and I think college should go with the pro rule of using the spot of the foul rather than 15 yards to help with that.

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None of these rules will increase FG% or reduce turnovers. So none of these changes will make it a better game.

 

Won't disagree with that. It should help the game flow better but doesn't improve the quality.

 

In theory, expanding the restricted area should help scoring a little bit but I hate that rule. Don't think it should be there at all.

 

The only things that is going to help with shooting and turnovers is the good players staying in school for more than 1 year so they can work on their game.

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Other proposed changes in hopes of helping the pace of the game include:

 

* Allowing a timeout called within 30 seconds of a break, or at any time after the scheduled media timeout, to become the media timeout;

* No allowing coaches to call timeouts when the ball is in play;

* Picking up 10-second count in the backcourt even after a timeout is called;

* Reducing the time allowed to substitute a player who’s fouled out.

* Allowing officials to use the monitor to review a potential shot clock violation on made field goals throughout the entire game;[/font][/color]

* Making Class B technical fouls (hanging on the rim, delaying the resumption of play, etc.) one-shot technical fouls. Two shots are now granted for these types of technical fouls.

* Eliminating the five-second closely guarded rule while dribbling the ball.

* Removing the prohibition on dunking in pregame warm-ups (a rule Kye Kurkowski wishes had been eliminated a year ago).

LJS

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The only things that is going to help with shooting and turnovers is the good players staying in school for more than 1 year so they can work on their game.

I don't know if that is the only thing. I'd like to see them take some of the physicality out of the game on D. Louisville's "defense," if you can call it that, during their title run was an abomination.

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* No allowing coaches to call timeouts when the ball is in play;

That's interesting. What does that mean, exactly? Isn't the whole point of a timeout to stop play, while play is currently occurring?

Only players could call timeout while the ball is in play. Don't know if college used to be this way - I assume it was years ago - but high school was that way until a few years ago.

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