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What do you think would have happened to the NBA, and basketball in general, if the shot clock had not been invented? Would the NBA still have been around today? Your opinion is appreciated and encouraged. Please keep posts related to the topic. Any chain letters, spam, irrelevant posts, or disrespectful comments geared towards me or anyone else will be deleted. Post away!!
Danny Biasone, the late owner of the Syracuse Nationals, invented the shot clock following the 1953-54 season to try to speed up the game and prevent teams from stalling. The lack of pace in NBA games in the early 1950s was widespread, typified by a game between the Fort Wayne Pistons and the Minneapolis Lakers on Nov. 22, 1950. The Pistons defeated the Lakers 19-18 in the lowest scoring game in NBA history. Each team had only four baskets, and Fort Wayne outscored Minneapolis by the underwhelming margin of 3-1 in the fourth quarter.
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Said Cousy: "Before the new rule, the last quarter could be deadly. The team in front would hold the ball indefinitely, and the only way you could get it was by fouling somebody. In the meantime, nobody dared take a shot and the whole game slowed up. With the clock, we have constant action. I think it saved the NBA at that time. It allowed the game to breathe and progress.
Said Maurice Podoloff, the NBA's first president: "The adoption of the clock was the most important event in the NBA."
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If I remember my NBA history, the shot clock was put in place after games were having final scores of 19-18 or something like that. It's a good thing and I wish college would go to a 24 second shot clock
Edit - Just saw Drobs post, my memory was correct!
Secondly, it was a joke. Sorry if I offended anybody.
Last edited by jobaba; 12-05-2012 at 08:49 AM..
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