
DapperDon
Yay We Suck Again
- Oct 4, 2006
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in basketball if there is 35 seconds to go the team only has 24 seconds to use the ball before forced to make a shot and likely turn the ball over (if close game, they'll get fouled and go to the line, giving the other team a likely possession)All I can say is it's a part of the game. People who blast players for time wasting, it's part of the game in every sport but you think that AFL players should be exempt from it? In basketball if there is under 24 seconds left in the game, players will try and attempt to dribble out the shot clock. In rugby, if a team has a set of 6 with a minute left, they will get up slowly and take their time, in NFL they do the same. In soccer if they're late into stoppage time they'll take the ball to the corner flag and hold it there until someone comes to take it off them. No fans of those sports complain about the tactics, why? Because the defending team has the chance to try and stop them, and it's no different in the AFL. If you don't want them to take time off the clock, man up. If you don't want them using the 30 seconds they have to have a shot at goal and then pass it, man up.
In rugby, they may get up slowly, but thy are then forced to make a play that may cause a spill and turnover, even if the siren goes the match is alive until the ball is dead.
Soccer, they may hold it in the corner but still have a good chance of turning it over, also tie runs up and they don't know when the ref will call the match.
why is it so important to watch a clock run down? what does it bring to the game?