24-Second Shot Clock

[Shox21]

Good article by Fran Fraschilla on ESPN.com as to why he feels high school and college teams should adopt the shorter shot clock. What think you basketball gurus?

[shocker22]

I like the 35 second clock. It allows for team basketball, and better sets. 24 seconds is just too quick.

[Shox21]

I like the 35 second clock. It allows for team basketball, and better sets. 24 seconds is just too quick.

Just curious - Are you expressing an opinion with or without reading his article?

[SubGod22]

There's no way HS would ever go to one that short. It's been hard enough to push for the implementation of the shot clock at that level but one that is making progress.

I really don't think college should go under 30. There's no need to speed the game up. And taking another 11 seconds away from teams is just going to lead to sloppier play and that will be less enjoyable.

[RoyalShock]

It's an Insider article. I suspect very few of us have subscriptions.

[AndShock]

I like the 35 second clock. It allows for team basketball, and better sets. 24 seconds is just too quick.

Just curious - Are you expressing an opinion with or without reading his article?

Honestly, I don't think the article will have any effect on my opinion. I like the 35 second shot clock, and I like college basketball much more than the NBA.

[Kung Wu]

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[Shox21]

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For example here is the abstract, paraphrased in Jive, for the lead news article being displayed here on Shockernet.net:

Each crib run Scott Schebla' hit in de No'dwoods League made him bre'd fum de Los Angeles Dodgers. By Monday's wastedline t'sign wid some professional team, de Dodgers met Schebler's price uh a $300,000 bonus. De losa' in de situashun be Wichita State, whose coaches dought dey had Schebla' on deir team until some few days ago. 'S coo', bro. "It wuz an 'estremely hard decision," Schebla' said. "A lot uh dought gots put into it. Man! It wuz an oppo'tunity ah' dun didn't dink would mosey on down around again. 'S coo', bro."

And you can understand this? Man, am I showing my age.

[Kung Wu]

And you can understand this? Man, am I showing my age.

Sho' man, ah' can dig it.

[WstateU]

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For example here is the abstract, paraphrased in Jive, for the lead news article being displayed here on Shockernet.net:

Each crib run Scott Schebla' hit in de No'dwoods League made him bre'd fum de Los Angeles Dodgers. By Monday's wastedline t'sign wid some professional team, de Dodgers met Schebler's price uh a $300,000 bonus. De losa' in de situashun be Wichita State, whose coaches dought dey had Schebla' on deir team until some few days ago. 'S coo', bro. "It wuz an 'estremely hard decision," Schebla' said. "A lot uh dought gots put into it. Man! It wuz an oppo'tunity ah' dun didn't dink would mosey on down around again. 'S coo', bro."

We're on a roll here... another 'post of the week' contender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMBEwtRZOg

[ShockerFever]

Hell no.

[SB Shock]

Hell no.

2nd that.

[1979Shocker]

I think they should set the shot clock to 30 seconds, which is the same as the women's.

[shocker22]

I like the 35 second clock. It allows for team basketball, and better sets. 24 seconds is just too quick.

Just curious - Are you expressing an opinion with or without reading his article?

that is right...just opinion. Didn't read it.

[Aargh]

Hank Iba pretty much invented the 50-point game at OSU in the '50's when everyone else in college basketball was scoring in the 70's. Passing the ball around a lot and not even trying for a shot unless something opened up for a gimme was considered boring, so the shot clock was introduced to put some pressure on the offense to do something other than wait.

Now teams like SIU (when they were good) have emphasized defense at the expense of offense and re-introduced the 50-point game to college basketball. That's boring basketball.

Marshall's theory isn't too far removed from the SIU pattern, except Marshall recruits player who can play offense and SIU wasn't concerned about that at all. SIU played boring ball, but made 2 S16s doing that.

If there's any reason to go to a shorter clock, it's to force defensive-oriented teams to run their offense a little quicker. The problem is that those teams only have to play D for 24 seconds instead of 35. That makes a defensive-oriented game easier. The faster time clock would increase the number of possessions, which would increase the score on the scoreboard, but that wouldn't make those games more interesting to watch.