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Basketball rule change: Stop the clock, play to a set number of points
They'll never do this in the NBA or CBB. But it would be a lot of fun, and it would eliminate intentional fouling at the end of a game...
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23825...nba-crunch
Quote:The organizers of The Basketball Tournament, the $2 million winner-take-all pickup-style challenge entering its fifth iteration, did not know quite what to expect last year when they experimented with a radical change to crunch time: shutting off the game clock and playing until one team reaches a target score.
Quote:At the first dead ball under the 4:00 mark, the clock will go dark as officials add seven points to the score of the leading team. The first team to reach that score wins. If Team A leads Team B, 78-70, when the clock stops with 3:58 left, they play until one reaches 85.
Quote:The Elam Ending is the brainchild of Nick Elam, a former middle school principal (and current professor at Ball State University) who got sick of NBA games ending in an endless torrent of intentional fouls. After toying with several methods of cleaning up crunch time, he landed on the simple alternative of a target score. Under Elam's rules, trailing teams would use regular basketball -- not hacking -- to rally.
He settled on adding seven points at various trigger times -- under 3:00 in his NBA proposal, and under 4:00 for TBT, which uses nine-minute quarters and a 30-second shot clock -- because it represented a close points-per-minute match to what teams produce in typical game play. (Elam tried more complex methods of calculating a target score, including some that would vary from game to game, but concluded basic was better.)
"After seeing it in person," Elam says, "I'm more confident this concept will live on in some way."
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06-18-2018 01:16 PM |
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RE: Basketball rule change: Stop the clock, play to a set number of points
Pie in the sky. It's NEVER going to change. EVER. Not in NBA, not in college, no where of real consequence.
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06-18-2018 02:34 PM |
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RE: Basketball rule change: Stop the clock, play to a set number of points
It would certainly make players dig in deeper if they knew there was a finite goal instead of conceding because of the clock.
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06-18-2018 05:58 PM |
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