NCAA MBB Rules Committee proposing fewer timeouts
It looks like the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee is proposing cutting the number of timeouts in games in the future (please please work embed):
#MBBRules Committee proposes changes related to timeouts. pic.twitter.com/qrGYSL8tk7
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) May 15, 2015Never mind, it worked
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Beat me, as I can't embed from work and had to type it out.
EDIT: additional possible proposal - Coaches can't call TO during live play (assuming players can) That SHOULD mean a more fluid game. I agree that cutting off a finger and/or reducing the number of media timeouts would be even better... but it's a start!
Which is great, but they're also going to experiment with giving players SIX fouls.
This could be interesting. NCAA will experiment with allowing six fouls per player next postseason, possibly NIT. pic.twitter.com/BedxNFXs5B
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) May 15, 2015
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I like it. Even as a partial observer for a game I have no rooting interest in, it's so frustrating to see good players riding pine when at least one of those fouls is often so borderline or even non-existent. Not to mention we had a better chance of winning the championship a couple years ago if this rule had been in existence.
Also this: "Thinking behind experimenting with sixth foul is, they're going to be cracking down on physical play; key players more likely to foul out." - Mandel's twitter
of all of these changes.
with our offense do we see it as plus or minus?
I don;t see it making that big of a difference. It may hurt teams that play slower initially but I think all teams adapt to the shot clock fairly quickly.
What about the free timeouts they give teams at the end of games by reviewing everything for ridiculous amounts of time?
If fewer timeouts means the last 1:20 of a BBall game might not equal 20 minutes of free throws and commercials, count me in.
Well the free throws will still be there.
Yes! With media timeouts, coaches really only need about 2-3 timeouts in a game. That might be too much as it is anyways.
The rest of it I don't really care for. The 30 second shot clock isn't going to change much. How many times does a possession get to the last 5 seconds as it is now?
And let's not go to 6 fouls. If you want to do that, get rid of fouling out all together.
Will commit 12 more hacks per game !
Also , how about cracking down on cheatapari and this NBA image
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Those timeout changes are pretty significant. No more timeout->5 seconds of basketball->TV timeout.
This and the shot-clock are the two most important, IMO.
I don't necessarily agree with adding a foul to each player for the post-season. I get keeping the 5 (or 6 or 7) best players continously in the game is important though.
On a serious not, push the 3 pt line back a little more. Everything is a a 3-pointer or a dunk now. the mid range game is lost.
Another thing that bothers the hell out of me but I don't know what they can do about it is the hopeless fouling at the end of games when the outcome is already decided. You're down by 15 with 30 seonds left. Just let it end. Instead that 30 seconds becomes 10 minutes.
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Not increase, but lengthen.
Since they are now publicly fueding, I wonder whether Jalen will ask Chris what is his take on this proposal?
Also changing the restriction arc from 3 to 4 feet... I wonder what that is gonna do...
Doesn't go far enough, but it is a good start.
The full article from the NCAA site is here - LINK
Miscellaneous proposed changes regarding pace of play -
Adjusting the media timeout procedures to allow a timeout called within 30 seconds of a break (e.g., 16:30) or at any time after the scheduled media timeout becomes the media timeout.
Removing the ability for a coach to call timeout when the ball is live.
Allowing only a total of 10 seconds to advance the ball to the front court (with a few exceptions).
Reducing the amount of time available to replace a disqualified player.
'Allowing only a total of 10 seconds to advance the ball to the front court"
In the past if you had already used 8 seconds and failed to get the ball across half court, you could call a timeout and the 10 second count to get the ball across half court would start over. I'm guessing this means that now if you use 8 seconds and fail to get the ball across half court and call timeout, when the ball is inbounded you will only have 2 seconds to get it across half court.
Often at the end of games TV isn't going to commercial during timeouts anyway. I don't think less total timeouts in a game is going to lead to less commercial breaks. The exception probably being the NCAA tournament. My guess is that the NCAA will run these past CBS/Turner before they are finalized.
Shot clock needs to be lowered more. I like the 24 second clock that the NBA uses. It's a much more fluid game.
Not mentioned in the article, but the women's rules committee recommended a change to 4 quarters of 10 minutes each.
* Instead of 4 TV timeouts a half, there would be 1 TV timeout a quarter.
* Instead of a bonus at 7 fouls and another bonus at 10 fouls in a half, there would only be the regular bonus at 5 fouls in a quarter.
I think these are also the rules in FIBA. I wouldn't object to these changes for men as well, but obviously they aren't going to give up any TV timouts.
at the end of the game. Make a basketball play on the ball while committing a foul or whistle.
Good luck enforcing the flop rule. I'm also skeptical that they will enforce the '13-'14 hand-checking rule. Basketball refs are more likely to provide star treatment and home cooking than in any sport. And in NCAA MBB, the head coaches are the stars.