Shot Clock Please.....

[BelieveITorNot]

Could we please hurry up and get a shot clock for High School Basketball. Throughout the season I've seen at least 3 teams get up by 6 points with 3 mins left in the game and started playing keep away with the ball. Shot clock please....

[1983]

1 hour ago, BelieveITorNot said:

Could we please hurry up and get a shot clock for High School Basketball. Throughout the season I've seen at least 3 teams get up by 6 points with 3 mins left in the game and started playing keep away with the ball. Shot clock please....

Yes I’m with you!  Girls basketball is even worse!  It will happen eventually

[DVP41324000]

ASSP PLEASEEEEE!!!!!

[Bobcats83]

Don’t want to see it.  Will lead to wild shot.  Not to mention people running it that have no idea what they are doing 

 

other team gets a lead get out there and force the action 

[tennesseeannouncer]

Someone with more direct information can tell me if this is inaccurate, but my understanding is that coaches and Athletic Directors were pretty much unanimous in their support for a shot clock but it was still tabled and will be at least two years before the conversation can come back up. And even then it would take a year or two to implement once approved. 

I personally think it’s long overdue. And I am not saying the shot clock should be :24 but it should be enough to force a team to do something. 

To me, the worst part of the delay is that fact that there’s no argument of substance for shot clocks to be delayed. More than anything else it is an argument about having qualified people to operate them.

[tennesseeannouncer]

3 minutes ago, Bobcats83 said:

Not to mention people running it that have no idea what they are doing 

Unfortunately the state is littered with well-intentioned people working games that have no idea what they are doing. Of course they mean well, and I know that these are volunteers, but part of the reason that athletics in Tennessee is slipping is because of the willingness to accept lower standards. 

[BackThatPassUp]

2 hours ago, BelieveITorNot said:

Could we please hurry up and get a shot clock for High School Basketball. Throughout the season I've seen at least 3 teams get up by 6 points with 3 mins left in the game and started playing keep away with the ball. Shot clock please....

I agreeeeeee! 
I’ve seen teams up 12 and stalling in the 3rd

[smokedog]

Inevitably, this is going to happen, maybe not next year, but maybe in 10 years, it will happen.  Why not get ahead of the game and begin to educate districts so that the districts can start preparing or training others to run a shot clock.  I have heard all the arguments as to why not, and schools don't have people that can run the clock correctly much less a shot clock.  Same can be said for the classroom and the front office but we still have to hire teachers, administrative assistants and administrators.  Schools don't have the money to purchase that equipment or pay someone to run the clock.....YES THEY DO.  Give the schools a full year to get the equipment purchased and installed and set up for two or three years down the road.

 

Hire someone right now to go across the state and start educating AD's and coaches.  This might take a year or maybe two years, but be proactive.   I know there is a shortage on officials, but go ahead and have a 4th official at the game (if there is a JV game then that official is already there) and pay them to run the shot clock and also have a 4th official there in the event another official goes down during the game. This could also be during a trial period where the 4th official oversees a school employee for a year to make sure that school understands what the expectation is.   I believe basketball is the only sport in high school where you cannot actually do something in a warm-up that is actually allowed in a game compared to other sports and its respective sport at the next level.  Why does basketball at the high school level not mirror basketball at the college level like other sports?  

Not saying that any of my suggestions are correct or can't be adjusted or changed but I agree it is time for the shot clock, and it is time for the restricted area to help officials with the block/charge call.

[CASC95]

Yes. Agreed. I ran shot clock for college about 9 years ago, the shot clock had built-in device technology to allow the ref's whistle to sync in with the shot clock. I'm not even sure they still use that today or not, but the argument against it's use because of implementation does not stand any longer. 

[TryNotToSuck]

1 hour ago, CASC95 said:

Yes. Agreed. I ran shot clock for college about 9 years ago, the shot clock had built-in device technology to allow the ref's whistle to sync in with the shot clock. I'm not even sure they still use that today or not, but the argument against it's use because of implementation does not stand any longer. 

Not today at the high school level. Just half to rely on the clock operator to stop the clock immediately, not the technology we see where the clock stops when the whistle is blown because of the technology they have at the college level.

[CASC95]

1 hour ago, TryNotToSuck said:

Not today at the high school level. Just half to rely on the clock operator to stop the clock immediately, not the technology we see where the clock stops when the whistle is blown because of the technology they have at the college level.

Well, if it will rely on the clock operator, I might change my answer...lol. I watched a game in 2022 at Livingston Academy where the clock keeper forgot to start the clock allowing White County to hit a three. WC went on to win by a total of 3 points.

[bounder]

I’ve run the scoreboard at football and it’s hard to remember to watch the zebras and NOT watch the ballgame! Haha