I agree with you. There would be so many schools that would have someone running the shot clock that would forget to reset it or do it at the wrong time. It would be an absolute disaster at a lot of schools.
The initial cost might be bad for some schools, but I don't really see that as an issue. I've coached at a lot of places that have clock operators that either forget to start the clock or stop the clock quite a bit. I can see a lot of issues with people forgetting to reset the shot clock. I think it would be interesting for someone to watch games next year and keep track of how long it takes teams to actually shoot. I'm guessing that shot clock violations would be very few in high school sports.
If there is a shot clock, it definitely needs to be longer than 24 seconds. At the high school level, we are still trying to teach skills and how to effectively run an offense. There would be a lot of teams that would have to chuck up shots and that would definitely hinder the game.
That is why I said 30. I would prefer a 30 second shot clock, but wouldn't be upset with a 24 second shot clock
I don't know about having a ref run the clock with a remote clicker. They have enough to worry about without having to remember to restart the shot clock every time.
I would be ok with 40 seconds if it had to be added. Thinking back to our season though, and we played 25 games, I can only think of about 2 or 3 games and only a few times when a shot clock violation would have even come in to play. It doesn't happen as much as some people think.
Why don't you quit yelling at them during the game! Then it would not be difficult for them at all! hahaha
In college it is a huge deal if you get 2-3 violations a game. So I think you are right, in HS it really would not happen as much as some people think,
I've only received one technical in all of my years of coaching basketball and it wasn't for yelling at the ref. I was "politely" asking him to start calling fouls when my girl is shoved three or four feet in the lane and he told me to be quiet. I rolled my eyes and looked away and he gave me a technical and said that he wasn't going to let me roll my eyes at him! Needless to say that I almost got thrown out at that point because I was once again "politely" arguing about his call and he almost threw me out.
