What do you think, will these changes have an appreciable effect on how the game is played and coached?

The major focus has been on slicing the 35-second shot clock down to 30 seconds. But there are several other rules that look to be more impactful. One is a defender can only get a five-second call when the ball is not being dribbled. A good ball handler who can maintain his dribble, even throughout the 30-second shot clock, will never be penalized with a whistle.

Another rule is an emphasis on moving screens. If officiated as written, this will tax motion offensive teams that rely on multiple screens to free a shooter for wide-open shots.

And perhaps the least talked about, but potentially most impactful, will be not allowing coaches to call timeouts during live action.

What does that mean? Once the ball is put in play, if the defense gets a quick backcourt trap, the coach can no longer call a timeout to beat the 10-second count. At the end of the game, once the ball is in play for that critical possession, a coach can't call a timeout if the play he called is suddenly not going to work.

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/...cart_river

The game was just fine. Why screw with a good game. Why is baseball so stable and other sports so screwed-up???

The part that needs fixing is the steady parade to the foul line in the last few minutes of a close contest.

(06-02-2015 05:57 PM)IamN2daRockets Wrote:  The game was just fine. Why screw with a good game. Why is baseball so stable and other sports so screwed-up???

I agree. I don't understand why most people think high scoring = exciting. Watching a bunch of guys go 1-on-1 and try and play street ball is NOT exciting.

The only things that need changed is the timeouts. Change media TOs to under 15, 10, 5 (eliminating 1 per half), and take away a TO from each team.

Sorry guys, I lived through the UNC 4 corner era. Hoops was awful. High scoring doesn't have to mean 1on1. That WMU team two years ago put up lots of points with quick ball movement, back-cuts and disciplined three point shooting. I prefer accelerating the game.

The proposed rule changes (they aren't official until the oversight panel votes) don't really seem that big of a change to me. Mostly they are just going to prod the officials to more strictly enforce the rules that are already in place. To be honest, I think there is a real need to start calling moving screens more. In the past decade or so, it's gotten to the point where they are almost never called. The screening player will often peel off to move to the basket before the contact happens, but that is almost never called a moving screen. That penalizes teams that actually set good solid screens over ones that push the envelope of the rules.

Moving the lower arc from 3' to 4' might effect things a little, but I don't think it will reduce the amount of collisions in the paint, which is the purported reason for the change. I'd guess it will just mean more fouls will be called, which will slow the game down, which is the opposite of what they are trying to do.

The proposed TO rule change just says the coach can't call a TO during live play. I assume (but maybe I am wrong) that a player still can. So, to me that's no big deal. I thought that's the way it was back in the very old days, but maybe I am just starting to lose my memory.

So to me the only changes of significance are the 30 second clock, and the no 5 seconds when dribbling. The latter change I believe is just silly. This could result in team with leads just having the PG stand a dribble for 25 seconds every possesion late in the game. How much fun that will be.

Well, at least players will be happy that they can dunk in warmups. Yippie.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/...-proposals

As long as we can get away from the last two minutes of a game taking fifteen minutes.

(06-02-2015 06:25 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  As long as we can get away from the last two minutes of a game taking fifteen minutes.

I hope also there is more emphasis on calling charging and traveling correctly.

I think that they could take away another TO. Game management is not a coaching skill anymore. With the media TOs and the regular ones, very seldom does a coach get to the end of a half or game and not have to worry about them. That used to be a very important strategy for a team/coach to manage and often impacted games.

No deed to increase scoring (IMHO)...Worried about making NCAA game = NBA game (more scoring)...that is NOT what I want to see/pay to see.

Like the no TO on live action at the end of the game...should add excitement and let us see who can play and adapt in those last BIG possessions.

"Nothing grows that can not change" - Dr. Bischoff, Bio 101