Bo Hamburger
Years ago
Zach Lowe on crunchtime, aka first to a target score
Zach Lowe is always worth reading and his piece this week, on an idea about how to better end games gaining momentum, is no exception:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23825970/zach-lowe-basketball-tournament-nba-crunch
The main premise: at a certain point in the game, shutting off the game clock and playing until one team reaches a target score.
eg: "At the first dead ball under the 4:00 mark, the clock will go dark as officials add seven points to the score of the leading team. The first team to reach that score wins. If Team A leads Team B, 78-70, when the clock stops with 3:58 left, they play until one reaches 85."
Why, that sounds very similar to an idea proposed by some learned soul right here in this forum:
https://www.hoops.com.au/forum/30613-imagine-if-basketball-was-first-to-100/
*Anything* to improve the ending of games is worth considering, and it seems some people are spending quite a bit of their time pondering how to do it. Good luck to them.