The question is why did people put up with that nonsense so long ?
What took so long for the shot clock to be implemented ?
The only thing that makes sense is that there were purists who didn't want the shot clock.

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Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/1/24 at 8:07 am to Bob Bass

Mostly it was a counter to zone defenses. When teams played zone you could pull it out and force them into man to man to run your man offense. Smith began to use it once he had a lead to run clock, it became extreme and forced the shot clock to be introduced but it wasn’t like this pervasive thing throughout college bball to start.

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Posted by H-Town Tiger

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Posted on 2/1/24 at 9:19 am to Bob Bass

quote:
The question is why did people put up with that nonsense so long ?

First of all the sport wasn’t nearly as popular then. It was in tv maybe once a week. The Tournament wasn’t as big a deal, was just starting to enter the national sports consciousness in the early 80s. Michael Jordan wasn’t a super star yet, no one outside of hard core UNC people perhaps a knew who he was really. But that’s also how it was played then. UNC fans didn’t care because they won. looking back at something especially from well before you were born looks very different than living through it.

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Posted by KiwiHead

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Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:50 am to Bob Bass

It was used to bleed a clock towards the end of a game. It was particularly useful for an underdog who might get up by 6 or more with 3 or 4 minutes left. But overall teams did not use it that much.

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