With baseball speeding up the game, can we get basketball to have less timeouts?

they would never do it, but they should have a 15 second shot clock.

that alone would cut at least 40 minutes off of the time each game takes

Is it the timeouts that cause the game to drag (don't help) or the fact that there is a foul with foul shots with damn near every possession once they get under a minute.

To minimize TOs in the last few minutes, you could set a maximum # of TOs in the final 3 minutes.

In regard to the person that wants a hockey style line change; couldn't you just have each team have their benches at half court, but on opposite sides and have a hockey style line change? Speaking of benches, I always find it funny how little room they give these huge guys to cram in when not playing. I suppose by having them at half court, you could have them 3 rows deep so everyone isn't jammed in along the court.

There's no reason to have team timeouts in basketball, I realized that when I became an Aussie rules fan, which is a lot like basketball with the way the game flows. Timeouts give basketball coaches too much chance to micromanage the game. It's not like they can't coach without timeouts, they are feet away from the players communicating all game.

Just have set TV timeouts during the game and let the end of games play out in real time so players will have to handle it on the fly.

And usually the broadcaster is out of commercial time by the end of games so the broadcast stays on the court during the timeout anyway.

Plus the big bonus would be eliminating bailout timeouts players can call when they get trapped or can't get the ball inbounds or are falling out of bounds.

most teams have to waste the timeout before end of first half that you lose anyway
just eliminate that one timeout

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This makes no sense. How would this speed up the time of the games? If anything, with more possessions, you'd likely get more free throws which would ultimately slow down the game.

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It's keakar. His modus operandi is not making sense.

Half a year of playoffs would be my first change.

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If they could speed up FTs in the final 3 minutes between subs/players' shooting rituals/resets that would be nice.

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In close games, it ratchets up the intensity. In games that are 8-10 points in difference, it turns them into grass growing. And the latter happens more often. Make fouls within the last two minutes punitive. If you are in the double bonus, you don't get 2 shots, you get the ball with a fresh clock.

love that gif

This is the worst idea I’ve ever heard. You clearly have never hooped before.