2 interesting rule changes for this season in NCAA basketball

[UPitt '89]

1. Offensive rebounds reset the shot-clock to 20 seconds, instead of 30.

2. "Flopping" is now a delay-of-game warning on the first offense by a team, and a technical foul on all subsequent offenses. Flopping will be called if a player takes a 3-point shot and then falls backward to the floor even when not touched to try to draw a foul.... or if a defensive player shoots their head back in an attempt to sell a charge.


I really like both of these rule changes. The second one should be called the "anti-Duke rule".

 

[NGPittCali]

Call it what you want but the officials will still have to admit it's a flop, so you're mileage may very for ACC bottom dwellers and new comers.

 

[Pitt79]

The flopping one I hate, it's another judgement call, it won't be consistent... Which I always hate, and who knows they may even review for it, and the thing I hate most in modern sports is any kind of video review.

How about they just let them flop and not give them a call? Isn't that simpler?

 

[pittman71]

Duke doesn’t flop like they used to back in the Battier days.

 

[Panther Holla]

I'd like to know Coach Capel's take on Duke's reputation for flopping, getting calls, etc. Does he see it now that he is on the outside? Or is it a figment of our non-Dookie imaginations?

 

[wbrpanther]

1. Offensive rebounds reset the shot-clock to 20 seconds, instead of 30.

2. "Flopping" is now a delay-of-game warning on the first offense by a team, and a technical foul on all subsequent offenses. Flopping will be called if a player takes a 3-point shot and then falls backward to the floor even when not touched to try to draw a foul.... or if a defensive player shoots their head back in an attempt to sell a charge.


I really like both of these rule changes. The second one should be called the "anti-Duke rule".

Now we can sit back and watch refs butcher the application of these new rules.

 

[Fredact]

I'm not a fan of the first one. Every time they shorten the shot clock it just helps the defense and makes for sloppery offensive play.

 

[Chanceman]

I'm not a fan of the first one. Every time they shorten the shot clock it just helps the defense and makes for sloppery offensive play.

I think 30 was too long but why go to 20 instead of maybe 24?

 

[upj87]

I think 30 was too long but why go to 20 instead of maybe 24?

yep, It was supposed to account for the time it took to bring the ball up passed half court. Seems to me that accounting for occasional pressure etc. that 6 seconds seems a good average amount of time to accomplish that...so I agree, 24 makes more sense.