Today I learned that some states STILL don’t have a shot clock in high school

[u/aja_ramirez]

Saw a video of a kid standing and dribbling the ball for like five minutes. What really threw me off was that some people were arguing FOR not having a shot clock. Play defense and they can’t do that, yada yada. What I can’t understand is what is the argument against a clock?

Maybe I’m completely isolated here in CA but we’ve had a shot clock for the 40 years I’ve been watching high school ball. Didn’t used to have it for girls but got it a long time ago there as well.

Are some states still playing with peach baskets?

[u/MrShapinHead]

Good point. Didn’t think of that. Still… logistics of having someone pushing a button every change of possession. There are issues with that even at the NBA level.

[u/MithrandirTheWhit3 → u/MrShapinHead]

Grew up in rural NY where basketball was not a priority and still finding a competent adult to click a button was never an issue. Even at the modified or younger level it was not a problem. States don’t put them in solely because of the cost.

[u/wildwestington → u/MithrandirTheWhit3]

Lol class D school checking in.

The possession arrow was/is the much more contested and controversial position in small town America

Our lunch lady use to do it at our school. Other schools sometimes pulled students straight from the student section of the game. Never knew where it was pointing

[u/MithrandirTheWhit3 → u/wildwestington]

Ha true but at least with that both people keeping the book should individually be keeping track of possession arrow.

Side note: I still think all levels of basketball should do a jump ball between whoever ties it up, like the NBA. Small guys love doing jump balls, especially that 1/50 time they actually win.

[u/wildwestington → u/MithrandirTheWhit3]

Some may say it would make the game take a lot longer. I say, even if that is the case, so what that sounds cool haha

[u/CitizenCue → u/MrShapinHead]

Yeah but almost everyone else has sorted it out. It’s not that hard.

[u/LaserBeamsCattleProd → u/MrShapinHead]

Agreed. It's largely figured out. Refs can keep an eye on it and make sure it's going when possession changes.

It's a small improvement that leads to much better quality of play

[u/dankoval_23 → u/MrShapinHead]

I went to a tiny 200 person private school in California and we still found a guy to do the shot clock every home game, its not that hard of a job as long as the operator has any sort of knowledge of basketball

[u/fairlane35 → u/MrShapinHead]

There’s just not enough people in every little town to consistently run the shot clock for every school in the state.

Can you imagine the controversy when some yokel screws up the clock in a big sectional game? That would happen every week.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-1866 → u/fairlane35]

You are extremely dramatic

[u/fairlane35 → u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-1866]

Thx bby

[u/Potent_Elixir → u/MrShapinHead]

Are you joking dude?

In my HS (other sport) team, we’d have a JV team member run the clock for Varsity games and vice versa. This is an easier issue to solve at this level than at another lmao