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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5642687, member: 1969"]
Team scores to go down 3 with 25 seconds to go.

So here is the scenario and play by play.
 Team fouls with 25 seconds to go.  Players and coaches look around to see if they should shoot free throws or keep.  Team elects to keep the ball. Oh look, here comes a substitution.  30 seconds pass.

- Team fouls with 24 seconds to go.  But this time the defence is more aggressive, not flagrant, but aggressive, because its not fouling to stop the clock, its attacking a player with a ball without consequences.   Players and coaches look around to see if they should shoot free throws or keep.  Oh look, here comes a substitution.  30 seconds pass.

- Team fouls with 22 seconds to go.  Players and coaches look around to see if they should shoot free throws or keep.  Oh look, here comes a substitution.  30 seconds pass.

- Team fouls with 21 seconds to go.  Players and coaches look around to see if they should shoot free throws or keep.  Oh look, here comes a substitution.  30 seconds pass.

- Team fouls with 20 seconds to go.  Players and coaches look around to see if they should shoot free throws or keep.  Oh look, here comes a substitution.  30 seconds pass.

- Team fouls with 18 seconds to go.  [B] Oh crap, the offensive player just got poked in the eye and has to come out of the game.  [/B] Players and coaches look around to see if they should shoot free throws or keep.  Oh look, here comes a substitution.  30 seconds pass.  T

[B]Or a coach will find the scenario above too risky and just take the free throws.   So we are either back where we were, or we have added in 10 fouls in 15 seconds by bench warmers trying to wrench the ball away.[/B]

Is this exciting?
Its also more dangerous for players because you are not fouling to stop the clock, you are playing aggressive to take a ball away.

Teams will also elect quite often just to take the free throws, because getting attacked by multiple players with the ball is dangerous offensively and for the players.
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