Now is it time for a shot clock?

[KevB1990]

http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/mi...200303044744392

 

You've got to be kidding me...in the age of complex offensive sets and aggressive defense, a coach would allow himself to stall a game to this kind of result...

 

Get me a shot clock...now!

[swamp]

Teams play sloppy enough on offense without a shot clock.

[coachchannell]

Any fan of good basketball would argue against a HS shot clock. If you watch enough games, it is obvious that the average HS team has no business rushing shots or creating shots with limited time. The shot clock would lead to the demise of fundamental basketball at the HS level. Who allowed the score to be so low... the offense or the defense. If the coach knew his team was out-matched... I would cosider holding the ball great stratagy because he gave his kids a chance to win!!!

[TheAnswer9]

The coach did what he had to do to keep his team in it and apparently the opposing coach had enough confidence in his girls to win the contest again, so...who needs a shot clock?? Leave the game as pure as possible my friends.

[KevB1990]

So in other words, college basketball (men's and women's) and professional basketball players don't have fundamentals because of the shot clock rushing them to create shots with limited time?

 

Why are we even bothering sending kids to play college ball then? All of their fundamentals would be garbage anyway according to that mentality.

 

I saw a good game last Friday in the 2-AA girls' championship when West Greene won over Claiborne County 37-28. The method that West Greene used to dictate tempo was crisp passing and patience on the offensive end and a box-and-one on Claiborne's top player to force others to try and beat them. West Greene went inside to their 6-footer many times, but she came up empty. They were trying to score.

 

I can live with scores like 37-28, but 7-4 is ridiculous. 40 seconds to shoot sounds like plenty of time to run an offensive set.

 

If you're a coach who's confident in your team knowing your offense well enough to run it and score and confident enough in your defense to get stops on every third possession, then you should have to resort to this tactic.

 

This game wasn't stall ball. Like someone said on another thread, it was a winner-goes-on, loser-goes-home game of keep away. Next time, the opposing coach should just forfeit to save everyone involved the waste of attending a snooze-fest.

 

Posted by coachchannell:

Any fan of good basketball would argue against a HS shot clock. If you watch enough games, it is obvious that the average HS team has no business rushing shots or creating shots with limited time. The shot clock would lead to the demise of fundamental basketball at the HS level. Who allowed the score to be so low... the offense or the defense. If the coach knew his team was out-matched... I would cosider holding the ball great stratagy because he gave his kids a chance to win!!!

[Edited by KevB1990 on 3-4-03 8:54P]

 

[trojanbob]

Fans should not dictate the tempo of High School Basketball

[swamp]

Out of the 500 or so high school players in Tennessee, how many will actually play college ball?

 

Posted by KevB1990:

So in other words, college basketball (men's and women's) and professional basketball players don't have fundamentals because of the shot clock rushing them to create shots with limited time?

 

Why are we even bothering sending kids to play college ball then? All of their fundamentals would be garbage anyway according to that mentality.

[Guest thelane]

College and Pro have a choice of players... high school coaches must play he best they can find at the school. If stalling means an upset win, WELCOME TO MARCH.

[KevB1990]

Swamp my brother, considering that there are over 300 high schools in Tennessee, I'd say that there would be quite a few more than 500 players.

 

And of the players on the teams, probably 2, 3 tops per school on average will play college ball somewhere.

[ParisRiverRat]

Have you ever heard of the term......"once in a blue moon"

 

Don't go wanting things changed just because of 1 game, it made national news, in some weird way, it was probably good for Tennessee. That was the only game plan that could keep them in the game, nothing is wrong with that....of course, if that happened to me, I would be upset

[hoops24]

7-4 it is a win....What is the problem? Game plan....Ball control.....The best defense can be won with OFFENSE!!! Get the picture!!!!

[swamp]

Those would be some pretty deep teams! I think our girls team dressed 12 players. 500 was just an estimate, my friend. 2-3 per school sounds pretty high to me. Sure there will be some teams with 3 or 4 players, but there will be many teams who produce no college players.

 

Posted by KevB1990:

Swamp my brother, considering that there are over 300 high schools in Tennessee, I'd say that there would be quite a few more than 500 players.

 

And of the players on the teams, probably 2, 3 tops per school on average will play college ball somewhere.