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Post by Commissioner on Aug 13, 2018 13:08:10 GMT -5
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Post by upbasketballfan on Aug 13, 2018 14:33:01 GMT -5
They might as well change basketball. I think they have ruined football. The players are afraid to hit as they will get suspended and fined. Funny how litigation gets in under the pretense of making the game safer but we have more injuries today than we did when there was less hesitation. I have been very disappointed with the end of the game strategy from our last two coaches. What ever happened to the " go home with the guy that brung ya" strategy. Momentum is key in a hard fought contest and relinquishing momentum not by the tactics of your opponent but by stupidity is unforgivable. It always grinds me when a coach can not read the flow of a game and sits on the lead and wastes a possession by passing up good opportunity to score just to throw up a desperation attempt as possession expires.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 13, 2018 15:14:13 GMT -5
Seems like a radical solution to a problem that really doesn't exist, in my opinion. I guess I am not a person finds the ends of games unbearable. I don't mind the trailing team taking advantage of the rules to try to come back, and I think the shot clock generally solves the problem of excessive stalling.
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 13, 2018 15:39:20 GMT -5
Getting off basketball, but not entirely irrelevant to this thread, baseball has become obsessed lately with trying to shorten games. So now in the Florida State League (high class A ball), when a game goes to extra innings and a team comes to bat, they get to start with a runner on second base. They've also shortened the games to 7 innings if they are part of a double header. So a week or two ago two pitchers teamed up for a perfect game, yet still lost 1-0. They retired the first 21 batters in order, then in the 8th ("extra" innings) started with a runner on second. The runner advances to third on an error and then scores on groundout. No batter reached base.* It's an abomination.
I'm an old school guy.
*Or, making it worse, did a batter reach base? The first actual batter in the 8th hit a grounder on the infield--the defense went to third on the play, and the third baseman dropped the ball. So the batter reaches base on a fielder's choice--but not a hit, walk, hit batsman, or error. Of course a batter reaching on an error ruins a perfect game but can a batter reaching base on a fielder's choice ruin a perfect game, since no runner ever legitimately got on base? (how can you even have a fielder's choice?) If the third baseman makes the play, the pitcher would actually have gained ground--he'd have a runner on first instead of the runner on second. Surely that doesn't ruin the perfect game, does it?
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Post by ptctitan on Aug 13, 2018 16:02:27 GMT -5
The extra inning rule is throughout all minor leagues. The runner placed at 2B is considered to have reached base on an error; so, the run scored does not count as an earned run against the pitcher.
In the case of Harvey Haddix, he pitched a 12 inning perfect game only lose it in the 13th on an error.
College basketball has already fiddled with the rules beginning with alternate possessions instead of jump balls, a shot clock, the 3-point shot, video replay, and many others. Video replay has made the games longer. So have the number of time-outs combined with commercial time-outs since most games are now televised. It now takes more than 2 hours to play a 40 minute college game with all of the play stoppages required in every televised game.
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