Is he right or wrong?
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- Quarters are dumb unless the game is 60 minutes. 10 minutes quarters break up play and momentum too much. Only viable if media TO's are reduced and coaches only have quarterly time out allotments. Even then it is a lateral move at best.
-Officials are terrible, but not over worked. They are terrible because they refuse to accept their role. That is they should be like the clock operator and only noticed when they screw up. Otherwise it should be a thankless, anonymous role. A role that is vitally necessary to the spectacle, but not actually PART of the spectacle. Yet most officials can't help but try to be part of the spectacle since it is grand.
-Coaching must be intense and "micromanaging" if you want teams with zero NBA talent to compete with teams that have even one NBA caliber guy. College is not meant to be whomever can amass the most superstars for a few years wins it all every year. We have the NBA for that brand of "basketball" where superstars isolate and the offensive strategy is "give LeBron, Curry, etc... the ball and the rest of you support their moves."
-Sounds like this guy just wants college to be exactly like the NBA and all I can say is screw that. I care NOTHING for the NBA and like college basketball second to only college football for spectator sport. The NFL is at least still football, but the NBA long ago became the "Not Basketball Anymore" league. It is the only major sport where the college version and professional version are this far disconnected.
Halves instead of quarters means nothing. If anything it eliminates a few more random heaves from full and half court with halves vs quarters. The only thing that is bizarre about it is that the women’s and men’s games differ here despite both being under the same governing body.
Reffing will always be terrible in a sport where most of the calls are split second and subjective.
The coaches are probably the most over marketed aspect of the game, the least you can do is have them make some decisions since the people are paying to get into the gym to watch the coaches coach.
IMO the NCAA Tournament is the best and worst way to end this thing. You get neat storylines, but FDU beating Purdue is just a crap product. You end a 30+ game season with putting a team who had a great season in a high nerves scenario against a team who objectively sucks and doesn’t belong and tell them “don’t get ambushed!” It’s not gonna change because it’s appeal to casuals, but the NCAA tournament is mostly crap basketball where narratives are more important than the sport.
Reffing will always be terrible in a sport where most of the calls are split second and subjective.
The coaches are probably the most over marketed aspect of the game, the least you can do is have them make some decisions since the people are paying to get into the gym to watch the coaches coach.
IMO the NCAA Tournament is the best and worst way to end this thing. You get neat storylines, but FDU beating Purdue is just a crap product. You end a 30+ game season with putting a team who had a great season in a high nerves scenario against a team who objectively sucks and doesn’t belong and tell them “don’t get ambushed!” It’s not gonna change because it’s appeal to casuals, but the NCAA tournament is mostly crap basketball where narratives are more important than the sport.
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To add to the conversation, too many timeouts. 4 media tos, 3 tos by each team. That's 10 timeouts in a 20 minute half. That's what interrupts the flow of the game. And it gets worse at the end of the game where it might take 30 minutes of actual time to complete 5 minutes of game time.
Both teams get 3 TOs in each half? I'm not sure about that. I don't know if I've ever seen a team use more than 1 TO in the 1st half. If they had three, SDSU would've used more than one in the 1st half tonight.
Men's game they get 4 for the entire game and if they don't use at least 1 in first half they lose it anyway.
In July 2015, the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee voted to reduce timeouts to four per team (down from five), only three of which may be carried into the second half (down from four).
Taken from the NCAA rule book.