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Message: [QUOTE="Syracusian, post: 893467, member: 684"] There's a lot of mixed opinions, but some common themes throughout the thread. 1. People seem like they want a shorter shot clock, and in my opinion, it'd be a really bad idea. Often times when I do watch an NBA game, teams really don't even have a chance to get into their offense before the shot clock is already at 10-12 seconds. By that time, if a double team comes, or if you lose control of the ball for a split second and have to regain yourself, you're almost looking at a rushed possession. If this was implemented into college basketball, where you're often dealing with people who aren't overly skilled/athletic like the NBA players are, you're obviously looking at terribly sloppy and rushed possessions. This would be even worse for teams that didn't have a go-to guy, because if there's 8-10-12 seconds on the shot clock in the NBA you can just give the ball to LeBron, Carmelo, etc. and let them go to work. This would also really benefit teams that pressed you. You're looking at a terrible offensive possession if you're playing a team like Louisville or someone else who has a good press/on ball pressure, and you'd be able to get the ball across half court, and if you did successfully, you'd have ~15 seconds to start your possession in the half court. I know people suggesting 30, and I wouldn't have a terrible problem with that, but 24 seconds just seems like it's too low. The pros of having a short shot clock is obviously scoring since more shots would be going up, and for us, it'd be beneficial incase someone ran ~33 seconds off of the shot clock only to get an offensive rebound and/or get fouled and then run another ~33 seconds off of the clock. 2. It seems like people are bothered by the fact that they grant an additional 10 seconds to get the ball over half court if a timeout was called. I also don't really care for this. That's like saying that you have 5 seconds to inbound the ball, so if you used 4 of them and call a timeout, then maybe they should give you the remaining 1 second in order to inbound it the second time. I guess you could argue that it's a live ball situation vs. a dead ball situation, but the definition of a timeout in sports is to let a team their act together in a rough situation that they are unable to currently deal with by setting up a different play/method and communicate that to their players. Some ideas/new rules that I think are good rules are: 1. I'd like to see the time stopped after made baskets under ~4 minutes. It drives me absolutely nuts that someone can make a shot at 2:49, then the ball rolls around, someone slowly walks to go and pick it up, then starts the inbounding process at 2:42 and gets another 5 seconds to inbound it while the clock continues to run. Then, if anyone actually understood anything, they'd realize that you could just simply inbound the ball, never touch it, and let another 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 seconds run off of the clock while no one was guarding you in the backcourt before ever touching the ball. They obviously stop the clock under 1 minute in the second half. But that needs to be extended to roughly ~4 minutes as I said. 2. One of the reasons why the NBA is so bad in my opinion (perhaps it's the same reasons that everyone thinks it's so good) is the fact that it is so fast. The shot clock is short, the backcourt violation is faster, and the court is the same size. You're handpicking ~8-9 guys on each team in the NBA and a lot of them are probably some of the most athletic people in all of world, and you allow them to play on a rim that is the same height and a court that is the same length/width (BlueCurtain, (perhaps sarcastically) thought that our zone would struggle when we played in MSG due to the court being larger). The NBA implements rules that speed the game up too fast for my liking. At least at this day in age. I always watched the NBA from ~91-92 until about ~99, and I never remember the NBA being this fast. Moqui pointed this out, but he wants it extended for even the college game, which I disagree with. Players have gotten a lot stronger/quicker/faster/athletic, but it doesn't really impact the college game to call for a change. However, the NBA is almost unwatchable with how fast/easy the game has gotten. [/QUOTE]

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