"ugly basketball"

[Shipyard Dog]

"When the balance between offense and defense gets out of whack and the
defense has more of an advantage than the offense, then I think the
game's not in the right place," said Dan Gavitt, the N.C.A.A.'s vice
president for men's basketball championships. "I would argue personally
that right now, we're not in the right place. The balance is too much
toward the defensive side of the ball."

Kentucky Coach John Calipari said, "If you want more scoring, you've got
to loosen up the game." He added, "If there's body-to-body contact
that's not obviously created by the offense, call a foul every single
time."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/sports/ncaabasketball/beauty-of-ncaa-tournament-may-not-hide-games-warts.html

 

[bobhertzel'ssweatpants]

Yes, because watching 45-50 free throws is so entertaining.

 

[Original Mountaineer1]

Personally I like the extra long games as it delays me having to complete my honey-do list a little longer!

Honestly the NCAA (and the TV networks) are negatively impacting the product. The author of the story recommends a shorter shot clock......what will that accomplish. Clean up the contact on the dribblers and cutters and quit calling fouls on rebounds and layups where no advantage is gained, When I would go to referee camps 10-12 years ago, if you called an AND 1 foul on a layup you were criticized for not holding your whistle long enough to see if an advantage was gained. In some games we are seeing 5 or more of these calls. In some cases there is no contact at all.

 

[Falcon1981]

I think reducing the shot clock works favorably for a defense.
If you watch closely, WVU opponents get the ball to half court at 27 seconds,

Reducing it to 30 would give them 21=22 seconds to run the offense causing them to hurry shots in a lot of cases. Hurried shots means lower field goal percentage.

 

[bobhertzel'ssweatpants]

Originally posted by Original Mountaineer1:

In some games we are seeing 5 or more of these calls. In some cases there is no contact at all.

Those are the worst - the anticipation calls. We get a TON of those because refs can't keep up with our press.

 

[TarHeelEer]

Calipari's skeered **

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[Original Mountaineer1]

I agree, not sure that a shorter shot clock helps.

 

[xWVU2010x]

Originally posted by Falcon1981:

I think reducing the shot clock works favorably for a defense.
If you watch closely, WVU opponents get the ball to half court at 27 seconds,

Reducing it to 30 would give them 21=22 seconds to run the offense causing them to hurry shots in a lot of cases. Hurried shots means lower field goal percentage.

Not necessarily, a lot of the time we see teams get it into the half court and hold until 15 seconds in an effort to limit possessions if a team feels overmatched. 30 seconds, in my opinion, would just create more possessions. If we dropped to 24, that is where I believe we would start seeing some of the poor shooting teams drop off dramatically.

They are actually experimenting with the rule in the NIT, it will be a good case study as to how it affects scoring and field goal percentages, and more importantly with average teams.

 

[Keyser76]

Too much offense in football too much defense in basketball said

... the coaches who have slow football teams and lazy basketball teams.