[Blue_Bird96]

I think 35 seconds is plenty of time and it keeps teams from stalling. I don’t want to hear about how it lets weaker teams stay in the game. Play better. Just totally hate that mentality, we aren’t that good so let’s basically not play for 85% of the game and hope to get lucky. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the best team winning. And this is completely different than a football team running the ball and chewing up clock because they still have to execute. 35 seconds still allows for some of that but I have seen teams win the tip in overtime and hold the ball for the last shot. Gutless.

Absolutely. In football you still have to execute. Not even comparable. I wouldn’t even care if it was a 45 sec shot clock. I’ve seen too many games that are spent holding the ball. What a coach is saying is “ either I don’t have faith in my kids ability or my own coaching enough to where we can be successful, so let’s just chew up the clock by stalling as much as possible”! You can’t have that type of mentality to support stall ball AND also gripe if a team runs the score up on ya in another game.

I’ve just always been the type of person that’s like, you believe in your ability, I believe in mine so let’s line up, go at it from start to finish and see who the best is. Some don’t look at it like that though.