30 second clock is coming....

[tabascojet]

Men's college basketball headed for 30-second shot clock, according to NCAA rules committee chairman

 

[ckhokie]

Good.

 

[HammerDown]

Leave the game alone.

 

[tabascojet]

Leave the game alone.

The dh in the nl thread is down the hall......

 

[The Derski]

30 seconds is a great move. Offense is struggling.

 

[kramer1]

Leave the game alone.

Agreed. There's nothing to fix.

 

[tabascojet]

ncaa mens bb is the only game with this ridiculous 35 second clock....its about time

 

[UKnation87]

I think it's a good move and one that is long overdue.

 

[Clayton]

Agreed. There's nothing to fix.

Except that the game doesn't resemble the pro game and at the end of the day, college functions currently as a minor league system pro products have to spend a year playing

 

[SJ76]

You're not going to see a huge difference in the college game with a 30 second shot clock versus 35.

Teams will still slow the ball down with a lead (prevent defense) and they will still lose momentum. Going from Dean Smith's 4 corners and no shot clock to a 45 second shot clock - now that was a big difference.

So this will speed up the game a bit, but it will still be great in March.

As smart as Mark Cuban is in business, he's been a dumb mofo lately speaking out about things. If he thinks the NBA is so much better than college, maybe he should take a look at his own team. My company has season tix to the Mavs and I go occasionally - our tickets are 10 rows behind Cuban and a bit to the right. I went to game 3 against the Rockets and Houston had 42 points at the end of the 1st Q and 70 at halftime.

When the teams in the NBA play actual defense, it's a fun game to watch.. but a lot of these teams coast on D until their backs are against the wall. Great example is the Bulls the last 2 games just going through the motions, while the Bucks get after it.

Back to Cuban. He also said the Rockets were not that good a few weeks ago. This from a guy who gave Chandler Parsons a max deal and traded a lot of good players for Rondo, who's been a cancer.


I've seen a lot better college games so far this year the NBA. Still some ball left to play, but the NBA is far from what it was with Bird, Magic and then Bulls reign.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Thinking that a 30 second clock will help fix offenses is a bit silly, IMO. Teams who take bad shots, and run poor offensive sets are still going to do so, only they will get extra possessions to run more bad sets and take more bad shots. Yeah, the scores will increase, but the actual "style" of play is not going to change based on shaving 5 seconds off the clock.

 

[gordontrue]

A step in the right direction

 

[tducey]

Great to see, should speed up the game.

 

[The Derski]

Thinking that a 30 second clock will help fix offenses is a bit silly, IMO. Teams who take bad shots, and run poor offensive sets are still going to do so, only they will get extra possessions to run more bad sets and take more bad shots. Yeah, the scores will increase, but the actual "style" of play is not going to change based on shaving 5 seconds off the clock.

Teams will have more possessions per game therefor getting more opportunities to score. It will speed up the game. CBB offense has been stagnant for years. This is long overdue.

 

[The Derski]

Shaving 5 seconds off the clock each possession may not seem like a lot.. But over the course of the game that's a lot of time added up.

 

[Golden Spur]

I'm against this. And why shave off 14%? Could try like 32/33 seconds first.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Teams will have more possessions per game therefor getting more opportunities to score. It will speed up the game. CBB offense has been stagnant for years. This is long overdue.

My point was that bad offense is still going to be bad offense. Yes, it will make teams speed up, but a team that is poor on offense is still going to be poor on offense. Giving them more possessions will result in more points only by default of more attempts, but it doesn't mean that suddenly offenses are going to be better fundamentally. The lack of fundamentals is what is killing college offenses, not the shot clock.

(FYI, I don't mind the change at all. I think it's a good chage, but I don't think this is going to have the desired effect that many are thinking it will)

 

[SJ76]

Shaving 5 seconds off the clock each possession may not seem like a lot.. But over the course of the game that's a lot of time added up.

Yes - If each team is using the entire 35 second shot clock, but most are not. Many teams chuck it up before 25 seconds so yeah they will have 5 seconds less, but it doesn't mean they will use all of the shot clock.


2 types of teams in college bball today: teams that run and gun & teams that run their entire offense and slow things down. I would bet that 10-15% of the teams out there play a slow type of bball. Most teams want to run anyway.

I've always loved what VCU does. But even with full court pressure, teams still have plenty of time to get a good look.

 

[rmilia1]

Just what a game that has very little fundamentals, minimal shooting talent and a plethora of teams that cant score needs. MORE BAD SHOTS!!! LOL

 

[podsox]

takes 5 seconds off almost every possession where teams just stand around running no offense. good start

next up
-cut a tv timeout each half 15,10,5 instead of 16,12,8,4 and 1 coaches timeout from the game
-only allow the player with possession of the basketball to call timeouts. coaches 50 ft away from the play should not be granted timeouts
-fix instance replay