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Post by connors on Jan 12, 2021 11:00:37 GMT
Across the world in all sports now there are games being postponed due to covid protocols reducing squad sizes.
So I would like to pose the question for basketball: Given the situation that exists how many players is enough to play an "elite" game of basketball?
The 76ers played with 7 the other day and to be honest if an NBA team can do that I do not see why other leagues, including the BBL and BE D1 cannot do that as well.
Some sports really do have specialist positions. Goalkeepers, Front Row Forwards etc. In a sport that increasingly talks about "positionless" basketball I don't think a team can claim to not be able to play due no point guard for example.
I would suggest that if a team can field any 8 players they can play. 7 probably doable as well. We've all seen BBL teams basically run whole seasons with 6/7 actual players and benches filled out with kids etc.
As Hersey always says...play the game.
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Post by reallyoldfeenixfan on Jan 12, 2021 11:20:09 GMT
Chester/Cheshire/Jets / Phoenix have been doing it for years, it's their normal " modus operandi "!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2021 17:33:25 GMT
Back in the Bob Donewald days we only needed four men  Clearly the season won't get completed if no one is willing to play if they are missing players. i haven't seen any evidence of that in Britain, but out protocols are clearly stricter and if you a player gets the plague, the chances are the whole team has to isolate. That's not the case in the States. As an aside the scenes at the college football final last night beggar belief. To answer Connors' question, seven's enough for a 40-minute game, And eighth is preferable in the NBA. In the 76ers game where they were the 7rs (i should have used that as the title of this) they weren't helped by Dwight Howard failing to realise that they'd need him for more than ten minutes and that he couldn't foul on every third possession - lazy, really. The eighth guy could surely have given them a few minutes if needed but the reality is they'd have played Embib if they thought they could win. Zone seems a lot more prevalent in FIBA play, which makes a shorter rotation more feasible. But then the NBA allows an extra personal foul and there are rules to prevent a side going below five men. Remembering the 6-man Jet Wash, it was amazing those guys could play such championship winning D and rarely see anyone foul out. Having Mike Burton onside certainly helped. The rumour at the time was that, despite averaging over two less fouls per game than the second "cleanest" team, he wrote to the BBL complaining about how man fouls they were conceding, saying "people don't come to watch kids from the bench, they come to see the Americans". |
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Post by connors on Jan 12, 2021 17:53:31 GMT
That JEts team was all the more impressive as one of them was Billy Singleton. I recall watching him play many times against the TV Tigers and he would actually take offences off occasionally and stay back.
I think in general for sport to complete their current seasons there are going to need to be compromises made. I like what Derby did in the FA Cup and I think that basketball teams need to approach it in the same way. I would support a stricter approach such as used in the Rugby Prem. The team that forces the call off loses the match. Far from perfect but might focus the minds for any of those considering a winder trip to Dubai.
As as aside for local league basketball some of the best games I've played are where we had just 5 or 6 players only. Amazing how the refs are sub consciously influenced by that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2021 19:33:19 GMT
That JEts team was all the more impressive as one of them was Billy Singleton. I recall watching him play many times against the TV Tigers and he would actually take offences off occasionally and stay back. I think in general for sport to complete their current seasons there are going to need to be compromises made. I like what Derby did in the FA Cup and I think that basketball teams need to approach it in the same way. I would support a stricter approach such as used in the Rugby Prem. The team that forces the call off loses the match. Far from perfect but might focus the minds for any of those considering a winder trip to Dubai. As as aside for local league basketball some of the best games I've played are where we had just 5 or 6 players only. Amazing how the refs are sub consciously influenced by that. Yes there were times when Billy took an offensive play off, he was also prone to take a defence off as well!! |
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