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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 1720148, member: 2133"]
This is the first season with the 30 second shot clock.  Previous seasons, teams have had issues with patience and finding quality shots against the zone using 35 seconds. I would expect that nearly all college regulars have an accurate internal clock so that they feel when time is getting short.  Losing that extra 5 seconds seems to have affected at least a few teams this season.  Now throw in the press, which can eat another 4-8 seconds off the clock.  A team that can get the ball into the half court set against Syracuse now has only 22-24 seconds to get an offense set up compared to what has usually been 30-35 seconds.

I don't how much it has been affecting teams, but the press seems to have upset teams' rhythm quite dramatically in the last two games and I wonder if the reduced shot clock this season factors into it at all.

Edited to add: Prior to making this post, I didn't see  this interesting article [URL='http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/06/18/30-second-shot-clock-defense-offense-scoring']from Luke Winn in October[/URL] where he specifically talks about the shot clock and the 2-3 zone of Syracuse:

So, what defense gets teams in late possession shots?

And the money:
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