New Rules (Part One) My expectations (Part Two)

[DanL53]

• Shot clock reduced from 35 to 30 seconds … The shot clock was last reduced from 45 to 35 for the 1993-94 season.

• Teams will have one fewer team timeout (only 3 can carry to second half. Officials will be asked to resume play quicker after timeouts.

• Team time outs called without 30 seconds of a timeout window will now become the media timeout (used in women’s basketball last year).

• A coach may not call timeout when the ball is live.

• With a few exceptions, 10 seconds only to advance the ball to front court.

• Reducing time to replace disqualified player to 15 seconds.

• Expansion of restricted-area arc from 3 to 4 feet. Continued focus on reducing collisions at the basket.

• During use of video to determine flagrant foul, rule will allow officials to penalize players who fake fouls.

• Officials may use monitor to review potential shot clock violation throughout entire game.

• Class B technical (hanging on rim, delaying game for example) now 1-shot technical.

• Eliminating the five-second closely guarded rule while dribbling the ball.

• Dunking allowed in pregame warmups and at halftime.

• Experimental rule – six personal fouls in 2016 postseason tournaments other than NCAA (i.e., NIT, etc).

 

[DanL53]

Not much change in our offense. We may face more presses but I suspect we have enough players who can get off an open three anytime they want that problems with the shot clock will be minimal. On the whole, yes, teams that rely on extravagant sets may find themselves short of time.

Oh yeah. Finally a chance to see some teams grabbing their shorts at the foul line and asking coaches to take them out of the game for a breather. It still won't be the cardio challenging game of the 1970's. But, it might just expose some of the beef underneath to a little workout. And depth will come into play more as well.

This couldn't have been written by McCaffery himself could it? Our time taking press and trap is perfectly designed already to take advantage of teams that struggle to get the ball up the court. These new rules just make our style all the better. And, the 30 second shot clock makes our press that much more of a problem.

The four foot no charge circle is interesting. At first I thought it made sense as an advantage for a shot blocker, but as I think about it, when you can turn and go right into a guy it makes more sense that a bulked up big can drive into the shot blocker and knock him off balance. But then there is the problem of fewer delays in play meaning bigs are going to be tired out.


As I've thought about it, I considered the line of scrimmage in a football game, because without charge calls it's all about tough stuff now. And who is trying to stop who? The offensive line is a bunch of big guys trying to slow down smaller big guys trying to get somewhere. Right?


Alright. On offense, give me not a huge lineman, but a quicker..size matters but not as much..quicker guy who can get to the hole even taking a little hit on the way. And defensively, if that is what is happening four foot and in, heck with it I want a big that has the speed to front his man and deny him the ball! As in guys like Dom Uhl and Jared Uthoff!


I will say, this rule still has me wondering. But I have a gut feeling we're not going to be as concerned about how many minutes Woody has to play when we see what the new rules does to the way teams have to defend.

The rest...interesting, not something that changes our game.

 

[Myvue]

I'm very surprised they want to experiment with allowing 6 fouls. The NBA is allowed 6 fouls but they play four 12 minute quarters. Maybe they will change the college game to a 48 minute experiment next year. I think allowing six fouls will make for an even longer game which is already running over the two hours allotted TV time now. In some games teams shoot up to 40 free throws a game which slows the flow and rhythm of any game.

 

[unIowa]

Unless they cut down on the media timeouts i don't see fatigue being that much different than previous seasons. WAY to many media timeouts.

 

[fivecardstud14]

They should have 6 fouls. College refs love calling phantom fouls, and they'll do it ten times a game. Because college refs love calling a non-foul a foul, the players should get 6 fouls.
I love the new rules for college basketball. People say there won't be that much change in the game but that's fine, it won't be worse than it has been. I imagine there will be a bunch of fans who are unaware the 5 second closely guarded rule no longer exists, and they'll be shouting about it at refs throughout the first half of the season.

 

[DanHawkPella]

Definitely seems to help the quicker, athletic teams. Lower shot clocks definitely hurt your ability to get a good look in the low post, or working the ball around the perimeter. Having guys like Fleming who can get a shot off from up to 25 feet even while guarded is more important now, or having guys like Andre Woolridge who can get around anyone with the shot clock winding down will be critical.

Definitely will be more NBA in nature, which I'm not sure I like as much - less about strategy and more about just beating people on pure athleticism (ie: break people down off the dribble and attack the rim without regard to possible charges).

The shorter clock, 10 sec max half court rule, and the larger no-charge area (I think you can still take charges inside there, but not while people are in the air by the way - you can't just lower your shoulder in the post and displace people for example) will benefit Iowa's type of player and system one would think.

I do not support removing the 5 second rule because as a defender if they take away my ability to take a charge around the hoop it just feels like we're hurting the defense too much. We should definitely get away from the holding and grabbing, but we should be REWARDING getting position not taking that away. I see a lot of zone defense coming from this, so a team will still need some shooters at least even if the offenses become much more simple.

Not a fan of college turning into the NBA. Just helps the Kentucky's of the world even more.

 

[Auger]

You will want to have a team full of athletic shooters. With the shot clock change there will be a lot more poor look shots being thrown up. I think Fran's new class fits that need.

 

[StormHawk42]

Don't like getting rid of the 5 second call because I appreciate in your face defense. Like most of the other rules, but I really hope they don't lower the shot clock anymore. Otherwise we are headed towards NBA style which I hate. I'm indifferent on the 6 fouls. On one hand, it encourages more physical defense and will make up whatever time was cut out from the timeout rules. On the other hand, college officials are wildly inconsistent and may save a few bodies who don't need to be disqualified so early.

 

[Mohawkeye]

"The four foot no charge circle is interesting. At first I thought it made sense as an advantage for a shot blocker, but as I think about it, when you can turn and go right into a guy it makes more sense that a bulked up big can drive into the shot blocker and knock him off balance. But then there is the problem of fewer delays in play meaning bigs are going to be tired out."

I see this rule hurting bigs like Woody who like to hang out under the basket and play position defense. On the other hand, tall long players like Utoff and Uhl who have the quickness to guard their guys closely and go for the block from the side or behind may do better. Perhaps why we don't see Fran recruiting a traditional center.

 

[DanHawkPella]

Clarification needed:

I assumed the 4' circle just applied to players in the air (driving from the perimeter), and not on the ground, so it shouldn't affect players using normal post moves. Can anyone elaborate on the rule?

 

[hawkeye54545]

I just wish they called the game like they did when I was a kid watching the Hawkeyes in the 80's.

Watching the old tapes now I'm amazed how free flowing the game was without all the grabbing, hand checking and bodying up.

 

[DanL53]

Clarification needed:

I assumed the 4' circle just applied to players in the air (driving from the perimeter), and not on the ground, so it shouldn't affect players using normal post moves. Can anyone elaborate on the rule?

It's supposed to be if a player is in the air, but that's not how they called it last season and I don't hold out hope that they will this year. Four foot and in it's going to be foul 'em or let 'em shoot.

The new defense is press, ball denial, get in the passing lanes and steal the ball, and if you can't do that sag it in with a zone and hope the other team misses it's threes.

 

[hawk-i bob]

Don't like getting rid of the 5 second call because I appreciate in your face defense. Like most of the other rules, but I really hope they don't lower the shot clock anymore. Otherwise we are headed towards NBA style which I hate. I'm indifferent on the 6 fouls. On one hand, it encourages more physical defense and will make up whatever time was cut out from the timeout rules. On the other hand, college officials are wildly inconsistent and may save a few bodies who don't need to be disqualified so early.

the college game has not only moved toward the NBA style...it is the NBA style with the exception of mugging defense...which eventually will be gone as well...the one thing the NBA game will never match with college...is the imperfection of a college kid compared to a more perfect NBA player.

 

[DavenportHawk8]

The only issue I see is, Dunking in Pre-game.

Im guessing that there will be some busted rims/broken backboards that will cause the delay of a game.

I know when I was at a JUCO, the refs never really enforced that rule and guys were dunking during warm-ups and one actually cracked the backboard. The game had to be moved cause of it.

 

[WORTHYWISH]

Most interested in how the 5 second rule affects the game. Might cause some to lay off on defense, but could hurt the offensive player against some of the stout defensive guys. Wait & see, I guess...

 

[HellaHawk]

Dan, great post, as always. The rule appears to benefit Iowa on their face because Iowa is a team that likes to press and tends to shoot fairly early in the shot clock. However, I always worry about unintended consequences. In this case, you could see more teams ultimately adopt an Iowa approach to the game. For example, more teams might decide to press, like Iowa, simply because it takes several seconds off the shot clock. Conversely, more teams might decide to push the ball up the floor faster because there is less time on the shot clock. In total, I can't see these rules hurting Iowa by any means, but will be curious to see if it causes more teams to play like Iowa, which would neutralize any possible advantage.

Along a similar vein, my other thought is that to the extent the new restricted-arc rule favors more athletic teams, I'm not sure if this will help or hurt Iowa. Certainly Fran McCaffrey wants to play an up-tempo game with athletic players. However, this is Iowa and it is not easy to recruit those players here. With the exception of Marble, we haven't had many during the Fran years though I recognize the incoming Freshman seem to be headed in that direction. Still, hard to see Iowa consistently out recruiting Iowa, Michigan, MSU, and Indiana (or even Illinois) for these type players. So to the extent we get a more NBA style game not sure that helps Iowa all that much.

Overall, I think Iowa will do just fine with the new rules. And I think they may slightly improve the college game. The limited timeouts should help. But I really don't want to see college become the NBA. If I wanted to watch the NBA, I'd watch it. A 24 second shot clock sounds horrible. Teams wouldn't have any time to run an offense to get an open shot. Instead, they probably just jack up contested jumpers like in the NBA. And 6 fouls also makes no sense unless the College game goes to 48 mins, which I don't see happening.

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

Dan, great post, as always. The rule appears to benefit Iowa on their face because Iowa is a team that likes to press and tends to shoot fairly early in the shot clock. However, I always worry about unintended consequences. In this case, you could see more teams ultimately adopt an Iowa approach to the game. For example, more teams might decide to press, like Iowa, simply because it takes several seconds off the shot clock. Conversely, more teams might decide to push the ball up the floor faster because there is less time on the shot clock. In total, I can't see these rules hurting Iowa by any means, but will be curious to see if it causes more teams to play like Iowa, which would neutralize any possible advantage.

Along a similar vein, my other thought is that to the extent the new restricted-arc rule favors more athletic teams, I'm not sure if this will help or hurt Iowa. Certainly Fran McCaffrey wants to play an up-tempo game with athletic players. However, this is Iowa and it is not easy to recruit those players here. With the exception of Marble, we haven't had many during the Fran years though I recognize the incoming Freshman seem to be headed in that direction. Still, hard to see Iowa consistently out recruiting Iowa, Michigan, MSU, and Indiana (or even Illinois) for these type players. So to the extent we get a more NBA style game not sure that helps Iowa all that much.

Overall, I think Iowa will do just fine with the new rules. And I think they may slightly improve the college game. The limited timeouts should help. But I really don't want to see college become the NBA. If I wanted to watch the NBA, I'd watch it. A 24 second shot clock sounds horrible. Teams wouldn't have any time to run an offense to get an open shot. Instead, they probably just jack up contested jumpers like in the NBA. And 6 fouls also makes no sense unless the College game goes to 48 mins, which I don't see happening.

• Shot clock reduced from 35 to 30 seconds … The shot clock was last reduced from 45 to 35 for the 1993-94 season.

• Teams will have one fewer team timeout (only 3 can carry to second half. Officials will be asked to resume play quicker after timeouts.

• Team time outs called without 30 seconds of a timeout window will now become the media timeout (used in women’s basketball last year).

• A coach may not call timeout when the ball is live.

• With a few exceptions, 10 seconds only to advance the ball to front court.

• Reducing time to replace disqualified player to 15 seconds.

• Expansion of restricted-area arc from 3 to 4 feet. Continued focus on reducing collisions at the basket.

• During use of video to determine flagrant foul, rule will allow officials to penalize players who fake fouls.

• Officials may use monitor to review potential shot clock violation throughout entire game.

• Class B technical (hanging on rim, delaying game for example) now 1-shot technical.

• Eliminating the five-second closely guarded rule while dribbling the ball.

• Dunking allowed in pregame warmups and at halftime.

• Experimental rule – six personal fouls in 2016 postseason tournaments other than NCAA (i.e., NIT, etc).

I mostly like the rule changes. Thanks for posting.

I am curious about the penalty for faking a foul. Does a flagrant flop now get assessed a technical? Is this only a rule when a flagrant call is being reviewed?

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

Dan, great post, as always. The rule appears to benefit Iowa on their face because Iowa is a team that likes to press and tends to shoot fairly early in the shot clock. However, I always worry about unintended consequences. In this case, you could see more teams ultimately adopt an Iowa approach to the game. For example, more teams might decide to press, like Iowa, simply because it takes several seconds off the shot clock. Conversely, more teams might decide to push the ball up the floor faster because there is less time on the shot clock. In total, I can't see these rules hurting Iowa by any means, but will be curious to see if it causes more teams to play like Iowa, which would neutralize any possible advantage.

Along a similar vein, my other thought is that to the extent the new restricted-arc rule favors more athletic teams, I'm not sure if this will help or hurt Iowa. Certainly Fran McCaffrey wants to play an up-tempo game with athletic players. However, this is Iowa and it is not easy to recruit those players here. With the exception of Marble, we haven't had many during the Fran years though I recognize the incoming Freshman seem to be headed in that direction. Still, hard to see Iowa consistently out recruiting Iowa, Michigan, MSU, and Indiana (or even Illinois) for these type players. So to the extent we get a more NBA style game not sure that helps Iowa all that much.

Overall, I think Iowa will do just fine with the new rules. And I think they may slightly improve the college game. The limited timeouts should help. But I really don't want to see college become the NBA. If I wanted to watch the NBA, I'd watch it. A 24 second shot clock sounds horrible. Teams wouldn't have any time to run an offense to get an open shot. Instead, they probably just jack up contested jumpers like in the NBA. And 6 fouls also makes no sense unless the College game goes to 48 mins, which I don't see happening.

• Shot clock reduced from 35 to 30 seconds … The shot clock was last reduced from 45 to 35 for the 1993-94 season.

• Teams will have one fewer team timeout (only 3 can carry to second half. Officials will be asked to resume play quicker after timeouts.

• Team time outs called without 30 seconds of a timeout window will now become the media timeout (used in women’s basketball last year).

• A coach may not call timeout when the ball is live.

• With a few exceptions, 10 seconds only to advance the ball to front court.

• Reducing time to replace disqualified player to 15 seconds.

• Expansion of restricted-area arc from 3 to 4 feet. Continued focus on reducing collisions at the basket.

• During use of video to determine flagrant foul, rule will allow officials to penalize players who fake fouls.

• Officials may use monitor to review potential shot clock violation throughout entire game.

• Class B technical (hanging on rim, delaying game for example) now 1-shot technical.

• Eliminating the five-second closely guarded rule while dribbling the ball.

• Dunking allowed in pregame warmups and at halftime.

• Experimental rule – six personal fouls in 2016 postseason tournaments other than NCAA (i.e., NIT, etc).

I mostly like the rule changes. Thanks for posting.

I am curious about the penalty for faking a foul. Does a flagrant flop now get assessed a technical? Is this only a rule when a flagrant call is being reviewed?

 

[RocknRollface]

Definitely seems to help the quicker, athletic teams. Lower shot clocks definitely hurt your ability to get a good look in the low post, or working the ball around the perimeter. Having guys like Fleming who can get a shot off from up to 25 feet even while guarded is more important now, or having guys like Andre Woolridge who can get around anyone with the shot clock winding down will be critical.

Definitely will be more NBA in nature, which I'm not sure I like as much - less about strategy and more about just beating people on pure athleticism (ie: break people down off the dribble and attack the rim without regard to possible charges).

The shorter clock, 10 sec max half court rule, and the larger no-charge area (I think you can still take charges inside there, but not while people are in the air by the way - you can't just lower your shoulder in the post and displace people for example) will benefit Iowa's type of player and system one would think.

I do not support removing the 5 second rule because as a defender if they take away my ability to take a charge around the hoop it just feels like we're hurting the defense too much. We should definitely get away from the holding and grabbing, but we should be REWARDING getting position not taking that away. I see a lot of zone defense coming from this, so a team will still need some shooters at least even if the offenses become much more simple.

Not a fan of college turning into the NBA. Just helps the Kentucky's of the world even more.

I love Iowa basketball but college ball as a whole has been in a horrible place.

There's nothing wrong with following the nabs lead. It's 2015 not 2002. They cleaned up their game and it's been great for them.

Slow down basketball is not good basketball. It's constant fouling on one end and lacking in skill on the other.

college became slow down boring ball from copying the nba in the 90s. And then they got stuck there and guys like coach K, Izzo and Ryan took it to an even greater extreme where you had games in the freakin 40s. Theyre the ones who turned every other play into a block / charge. 20 years ago teams were scoring in the 80s.

It's time to be done with that crap.

Get back to playing the way it's supposed to be played, with skill and movement.

It doesn't favor anyone, learn to shoot pass and move without the ball.

One on one basketball doesn't win, the NBA is actually proving that with teams like the Spurs and Warriors winning the last two titles. Again, ball movement and shooting.

The more skilled team should usually win unless you allow more athletic teams to foul all game, aka college basketball.

 

[RocknRollface]

I just wish they called the game like they did when I was a kid watching the Hawkeyes in the 80's.

Watching the old tapes now I'm amazed how free flowing the game was without all the grabbing, hand checking and bodying up.

Exactly, it's also amazing to watch how much better players used to be offensively.

The majority of a whole generation never learned how to play while trying to copy Micheal Jordan.

 

[DanL53]

If the 1980's seemed great imagine what fans who experienced the 1960's and 1970's recall. No way a Jim Rowinski or Brian Cardinal survive if the refs hadn't started allowing maul ball in the 80's.

Even before those Purdue guys, when Bobby Knight introduced us to moving screens and physical defense.

And all it took was to convince refs to swallow their whistles.

It's crazy but every rule change from the 1980's to today has been an attempt to make the game exciting again, when all it really would have taken is just call the dang fouls!!!

 

[mazda1]

When Ralph had the six pack..... That was exciting basketball.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

• During use of video to determine flagrant foul, rule will allow officials to penalize players who fake fouls.

Well, there goes Wisconsin's defensive philosophy. What are they going to do now?

 

[Red87]

It's supposed to be if a player is in the air, but that's not how they called it last season and I don't hold out hope that they will this year. Four foot and in it's going to be foul 'em or let 'em shoot.

The new defense is press, ball denial, get in the passing lanes and steal the ball, and if you can't do that sag it in with a zone and hope the other team misses it's threes.

The charge circle only applies to secondary and tertiary defenders (help guys essentially). If a player is guarding someone on the block and they bully inside the circle for example, the defender can still draw a charge. or, if a player is guarding a dribbler who tries to explode to the hoop, but the defender (a primary defender in this case) has position, he can still draw an offensive foul even inside the circle. The rule is designed to keep secondary and tertiary defenders from just sliding in under the basket once a player gets beat. These help defenders can still take charges, but they have to establish position (both feet) outside the circle.

 

[Ronman]

The only issue I see is, Dunking in Pre-game.

Im guessing that there will be some busted rims/broken backboards that will cause the delay of a game.

I know when I was at a JUCO, the refs never really enforced that rule and guys were dunking during warm-ups and one actually cracked the backboard. The game had to be moved cause of it.

I suspect this rule was changed because of the much superior quality of the equipment as opposed to previous eras. I can't remember the last time I saw a broken backboard.

Every year new rules are implemented in college ball, usually with the attempt to alleviate the grabbing and holding that favors certain teams. They are enforced at the start of the season and then the refs slowly revert back to their old ways. Will be interesting to see how some of these are enforced, especially calling fouls on players that fake getting fouled.

 

[pocha444444]

Definitely seems to help the quicker, athletic teams. Lower shot clocks definitely hurt your ability to get a good look in the low post, or working the ball around the perimeter. Having guys like Fleming who can get a shot off from up to 25 feet even while guarded is more important now, or having guys like Andre Woolridge who can get around anyone with the shot clock winding down will be critical.

Definitely will be more NBA in nature, which I'm not sure I like as much - less about strategy and more about just beating people on pure athleticism (ie: break people down off the dribble and attack the rim without regard to possible charges).

The shorter clock, 10 sec max half court rule, and the larger no-charge area (I think you can still take charges inside there, but not while people are in the air by the way - you can't just lower your shoulder in the post and displace people for example) will benefit Iowa's type of player and system one would think.

I do not support removing the 5 second rule because as a defender if they take away my ability to take a charge around the hoop it just feels like we're hurting the defense too much. We should definitely get away from the holding and grabbing, but we should be REWARDING getting position not taking that away. I see a lot of zone defense coming from this, so a team will still need some shooters at least even if the offenses become much more simple.

Not a fan of college turning into the NBA. Just helps the Kentucky's of the world even more.

I couldn't disagree more. While I disagree that turning the game into more of an NBA style is a bad thing, this is just a matter of opinion. Where I really think you are wrong though is that these changes will help the teams like Kentucky. The two major changes this year are the 30 second shot clock and the removal of the five second closely guarded rule. Both these changes should hurt teams like Kentucky if anything. A 30 second shot clock puts a greater emphasis on having a fluid offense and not one that can get stagnant (like can tend to happen with a bunch of freshman who are athletes but don't know much about moving without the ball). This will favor experienced teams that have played together and can get quality shots off in those 30 seconds (the Wisconsin's of the world). The removal of the five second closely guarded rule will also hurt the teams like Kentucky, Louisville, Mich St, Duke etc that have a bunch of athletes that could previously get up in your face on defense and force a five second call. Just because college is moving closer to an NBA game doesn't necessarily mean that the college teams with NBA athletes will benefit.

 

[sanjosebill]

I love Iowa basketball but college ball as a whole has been in a horrible place.

There's nothing wrong with following the nabs lead. It's 2015 not 2002. They cleaned up their game and it's been great for them.

Slow down basketball is not good basketball. It's constant fouling on one end and lacking in skill on the other.

college became slow down boring ball from copying the nba in the 90s. And then they got stuck there and guys like coach K, Izzo and Ryan took it to an even greater extreme where you had games in the freakin 40s. Theyre the ones who turned every other play into a block / charge. 20 years ago teams were scoring in the 80s.

It's time to be done with that crap.

Get back to playing the way it's supposed to be played, with skill and movement.

It doesn't favor anyone, learn to shoot pass and move without the ball.

One on one basketball doesn't win, the NBA is actually proving that with teams like the Spurs and Warriors winning the last two titles. Again, ball movement and shooting.

The more skilled team should usually win unless you allow more athletic teams to foul all game, aka college basketball.

There's a lot of idiocy in this post. Something tells me that K, Ryan and Izzo will be successful no matter the rules. Their teams know how to play and they've been doing it over decades.

The NBA team that Wisconsin for example is most frequently compared to, The Spurs, win with intelligent play, ball movement and cohesiveness. Just like those teams/coaches you mentioned.

 

[sanjosebill]

There's an awful lot of inconsistency in the new rules. For example there will be a crackdown on illegal screens and bumping cutters (good thing) yet the new rules will now allow you to use an arm bar in the post? That's gonna be hard to interpret.

 

[ThriceHawk]

Not a fan of getting rid of the 5 second rule, or potentially bumping up to 6 fouls, but the rest looks good.

 

[fivecardstud14]

There's a lot of idiocy in this post. Something tells me that K, Ryan and Izzo will be successful no matter the rules. Their teams know how to play and they've been doing it over decades.

The NBA team that Wisconsin for example is most frequently compared to, The Spurs, win with intelligent play, ball movement and cohesiveness. Just like those teams/coaches you mentioned.

LOL at you calling that guy an idiot then comparing Wisconsin to San Antonio. This isn't 2003, the Spurs actually look for their shots within the first 10 seconds of the shot clock, something Wisconsin does not do.

 

[SDHawkDoc]

I don't like the 6 fouls, but it is a limited experiment so I have less problem with that.
The other changes in general seem to have the intent of speeding up the game, and possibly increasing perimeter scoring. I'm for anything that does that.
My sweet spot for scoring would be to have totals closer to 150 points for both teams per game.

 

[sanjosebill]

LOL at you calling that guy an idiot then comparing Wisconsin to San Antonio. This isn't 2003, the Spurs actually look for their shots within the first 10 seconds of the shot clock, something Wisconsin does not do.

I specifically used that reference about the Spurs because Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shane Battier specifically mentioned the Spurs when comparing the Badgers to an NBA team on CBS's and ESPN's coverage of the Final Four.

-No team in the NCAA tournament averaged more points than Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament.

--Ken Pomeroy and Seth Davis also had articles last year that revealed no team took a shot within the first 7 seconds of a possession than Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of the last teams when it comes to tempo but tempo doesn't take into account that strong defensive teams/low turnover teams reduce the # of possessions thus lowering tempo #'s.

So basically you're wrong when in comes to the data.

 

[sanjosebill]

I don't like the 6 fouls, but it is a limited experiment so I have less problem with that.
The other changes in general seem to have the intent of speeding up the game, and possibly increasing perimeter scoring. I'm for anything that does that.
My sweet spot for scoring would be to have totals closer to 150 points for both teams per game.

I think 6 fouls cheapens the game.

 

[fivecardstud14]

I specifically used that reference about the Spurs because Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shane Battier specifically mentioned the Spurs when comparing the Badgers to an NBA team on CBS's and ESPN's coverage of the Final Four.

-No team in the NCAA tournament averaged more points than Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament.

--Ken Pomeroy and Seth Davis also had articles last year that revealed no team took a shot within the first 7 seconds of a possession than Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of the last teams when it comes to tempo but tempo doesn't take into account that strong defensive teams/low turnover teams reduce the # of possessions thus lowering tempo #'s.

So basically you're wrong when in comes to the data.

I stand corrected, never would've guessed on the bold part. Does Wisconsin do that again this year or was that an aberration with their roster?

 

[HawkRugged17]

• Eliminating the five-second closely guarded rule while dribbling the ball.

The 5 second rule change will be interesting. It is only not going to be called while dribbling. If a player picks up his dribble, the 5 second rule can still be called. The new rule basically eliminates the ref counting to 5 while a player is dribbling out front while they were trying to determine whether the defender was closely guarding the dribbler.

 

[The Sleeping Dog]

The consistent theme appears to be the promotion of pure athleticism and TV marketability. Right now that will help the Hawks because that's already the McC style. Not a good development long term. Too mercenary already. The TV audience clamoring for Iowa games is pretty pretty pretty small.

You know, the NCAA has a great product. It seems that they are killing an already great marketing model in a greedy pursuit of even more money.

 

[Legend12]

college became slow down boring ball from copying the nba in the 90s. And then they got stuck there and guys like coach K, Izzo and Ryan took it to an even greater extreme where you had games in the freakin 40s. Theyre the ones who turned every other play into a block / charge. 20 years ago teams were scoring in the 80s.
movement and shooting.

Coach K? In the last 30 years Duke has averaged less than 75 points per game one time.

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

Coach K? In the last 30 years Duke has averaged less than 75 points per game one time.

Yeah Coach K doesn't play slow, but Duke does play in-your-face defense that challenges the zebras to call fouls when there is ongoing contact. I think Bobby Knight deserves a lot of credit for the shift in how the game was played.

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

Coach K? In the last 30 years Duke has averaged less than 75 points per game one time.

Yeah Coach K doesn't play slow, but Duke does play in-your-face defense that challenges the zebras to call fouls when there is ongoing contact. I think Bobby Knight deserves a lot of credit for the shift in how the game was played.

 

[Ronman]

Two more rule changes for this season:

(1) Airborne shooters called for charging cannot score a basket.

(2) Offensive jump shooters are not allowed to seek out a defender for contact.

Both would seem to favor the defensive team.