Norlander: Izzo Wants College Rulebook More Like NBA
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been saying it for a while....
28 second shot clock.
widen the lane.
expand the 3 point line
double bonus after 6 fouls
6 fouls to foul out
enforce freedom of movement
illegal defense/offense or whatever they call it now
28 second shot clock.
widen the lane.
expand the 3 point line
double bonus after 6 fouls
6 fouls to foul out
enforce freedom of movement
illegal defense/offense or whatever they call it now
i agree with most of what you are saying
but CBB should never go below the 30 second shot clock
IMHO 30 seconds is perfect
I say go to playground rules. Chain hoops, check the ball at mid court, and no blood-no foul.
I'd see how the 30 second clock goes before reducing it further. Most college teams don't run an offense as well as an NBA team or have individual playmakers like in the league. There'd be a LOT of awful shots thrown up if we go too short.
I definitely agree with widening the lane.
I'd go with the international 3-point line, about halfway between college and NBA.
Fouls should stay as they are. NBA has longer periods so they still get 8 fouls per minute before a foul out. They get free throws starting with the 5th foul in a quarter. Extend from 12 minutes to 20 and that rounds to starting with the 7th foul. Getting rid of 1 and 1 is an interesting idea, though, that increases the penalty for fouling.
Yeah, I too want to see how the college game goes with the 30 second shot clock before messing with it. I hope it makes the game more enjoyable to Watch and makes the game speed up just a little. College players should be able to adapt to less time on the clock considering most teams use 10+ or more of the shot clock to just stand in a spot and pound the ball. This 30 second change may make guys actually try to set up plays by passing the ball instead of standing in one spot dribbling the ball.
I honestly think that the only "rule change" that college basketball needs in order to be as aesthetically pleasing as the NBA isn't really a rule change at all. It's just to have the refs call fouls in a manner similar to how they're called in the NBA.
Some people love to act like the college game and the pro game are completely separate entities, but the reality is that they're inextricably intertwined. College basketball still supplies the NBA with the vast majority of its players, even if those guys only play in college briefly. What that means is that the majority of players are going to arrive in the pros with an understanding of how to play that's based on the college game. That's what their instincts are going to be, and that's going to be what they were taught. Whatever differences occur are going to come about because of changes in the circumstances they're playing in. Some of which is, yes, in the rules, but a lot (I would say most) of which just has to do with how refs call fouls.
The college and the pro game generally followed the same paths until about 10 years ago. Those paths had, for a long time, generally been ones of ever-increasing physicality on defense, slower tempos, and lower scores. But the NBA acknowledges itself as a pure entertainment product in a way that the college game won't admit, and the NBA recognized how that trend wasn't healthy for the entertainment value of its game. So it made a concerted, pretty successful effort to change that trend, with a few rules' tweaks, but in large part by forcing its refs to call hand-checks, arm bars, shoving off the ball, moving screens- just a lot of the stuff that clogs up the game and tends to turn it into a wrestling match.
The college game has not followed suit. There was a stab at in 2013-14, but it lasted about 2 months before reverting back to the status quo. And the result has been ever-slower games, with ever-lower scores, with little ball-movement or offensive flow. Call fouls like the NBA does, and I think that changes, regardless of whether the clock goes to 24, 28, or 30 seconds, or whether the illegal D rules are the same, or any of that stuff. Officiating is simply the biggest factor.
Some people love to act like the college game and the pro game are completely separate entities, but the reality is that they're inextricably intertwined. College basketball still supplies the NBA with the vast majority of its players, even if those guys only play in college briefly. What that means is that the majority of players are going to arrive in the pros with an understanding of how to play that's based on the college game. That's what their instincts are going to be, and that's going to be what they were taught. Whatever differences occur are going to come about because of changes in the circumstances they're playing in. Some of which is, yes, in the rules, but a lot (I would say most) of which just has to do with how refs call fouls.
The college and the pro game generally followed the same paths until about 10 years ago. Those paths had, for a long time, generally been ones of ever-increasing physicality on defense, slower tempos, and lower scores. But the NBA acknowledges itself as a pure entertainment product in a way that the college game won't admit, and the NBA recognized how that trend wasn't healthy for the entertainment value of its game. So it made a concerted, pretty successful effort to change that trend, with a few rules' tweaks, but in large part by forcing its refs to call hand-checks, arm bars, shoving off the ball, moving screens- just a lot of the stuff that clogs up the game and tends to turn it into a wrestling match.
The college game has not followed suit. There was a stab at in 2013-14, but it lasted about 2 months before reverting back to the status quo. And the result has been ever-slower games, with ever-lower scores, with little ball-movement or offensive flow. Call fouls like the NBA does, and I think that changes, regardless of whether the clock goes to 24, 28, or 30 seconds, or whether the illegal D rules are the same, or any of that stuff. Officiating is simply the biggest factor.
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