{"id":2741,"date":"2015-11-13T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/wary-teams-make-tweaks-ahead-of-shorter-shot-clock\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:06:20","slug":"wary-teams-make-tweaks-ahead-of-shorter-shot-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/wary-teams-make-tweaks-ahead-of-shorter-shot-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Wary teams make tweaks ahead of shorter shot clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, Wis. \u2014<\/strong> Not all that long ago, Wisconsin grinded out games and won regularly by scoring in the 40s and 50s. Last year, Wisconsin could keep up with anybody with Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker leading the way.<\/p>\n

The efficient Badgers are adept at adapting to the times and a new wrinkle has arrived this season: The shot clock has been shaved by five seconds, leaving teams \u2014 patient and otherwise \u2014 30 seconds to run their offense.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin\u2019s Bo Ryan and other coaches aren\u2019t necessarily buying that this will lead to dramatic changes in college basketball. But practices have changed subtly at many schools, communication and court awareness are more important than ever, and full-court pressure is getting a new look as a way to turn up the heat on offenses getting used to having less time on their hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve noticed it a little bit, having the clock five seconds less, especially with our scout squad putting pressure on us full court,\u201d Wisconsin point guard Bronson Koenig said. \u201cWe just have to get things a little quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teams with experienced guards like Koenig, and Wichita State\u2019s Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker, may have easier adjustments. That veteran backcourt helped Wichita State finish fourth-best nationally in limiting turnovers last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have to teach (new players) what it\u2019s like to have to get a shot off at a certain point, whether that\u2019s in a one-on-one situation, a ball screen, or whatever,\u201d Shockers coach Gregg Marshall said. \u201cWhen it comes to guys like (VanVleet and Baker), I\u2019m not worried about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Arizona, Sean Miller is among many coaches making players more aware of \u201csoft\u201d full-court pressure situations, where an opponent might press or show press in an effort to slow an offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you do that, and you don\u2019t understand the difference of five seconds, you start getting into a situation where it might have been 15 seconds left in the past but now it\u2019s 10,\u201d Miller said. \u201cOr all of a sudden it\u2019s five and it\u2019s dire straits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless, Miller continues to emphasize attacking with the ball and getting quickly in the offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, on defense, we want to get them to the end of the clock. Maybe that will be to our advantage defensively,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n

Other teams were going back to work in practice, like Michigan after what coach John Beilein saw last week in an exhibition game against Le Moyne.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s three seconds sometimes that it takes us to get into something, that we had the luxury to do before,\u201d Beilein said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have it. We\u2019ve got to pop that ball and move and drive it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shot clock was last changed before the 1993-94 season, when it went from 45 seconds to 35 seconds. It\u2019s being changed again amid concerns over low scoring; Since 2012, teams have averaged around 68 points per game every year except 2014 \u2014 all near historic lows.<\/p>\n

Like Michigan, North Carolina State used a 25-second clock in the preseason to prepare his team. Gottfried\u2019s squad was also one of best in the country last year in limiting turnovers. The nonconference schedule in November and December will be a trial period, Gottfried said, but \u201cpeople adjust a little bit, and I think everybody will be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Syracuse, where coach Jim Boeheim\u2019s 2-3 zone has frustrated teams for decades, there\u2019s not much consternation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost team shoot between 12 and 16 seconds, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to have any effect at all,\u201d Boeheim said. \u201cI think if you went to 24, there would be a noticeable effect, but not 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the summer, the Badgers played with an NBA-standard, 24-second clock for some pickup games. For practice possessions at half court, Wisconsin will start the clock at about 23 seconds now instead of 27. Working with a less experienced roster this season, Ryan started working on press defense and press-break situations on offense a little earlier than usual this preseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it\u2019s still going to be you\u2019ve got to put the ball in the basket and you\u2019ve got to try to stop the other guys from putting the ball in the basket, whether it\u2019s a 5-second shot clock or 30,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, Wis. \u2014 Not all that long ago, Wisconsin grinded out games and won regularly by scoring in the 40s and 50s. Last year, Wisconsin could keep up with anybody with Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker leading the way. The efficient Badgers are adept at adapting to the times and a new wrinkle has arrived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}