coasterville95
07-12-2022, 06:18 PM
While brushing up ahead of the TBT at the Tas next week - I noted they will be using the Elam Ending.
In brief, the Elam is designed to keep the endings of games exciting by eliminating the standard free throw parade that makes the final few minutes take forever, ruins the pacing of the game, and in general just delays the inevitable. The guy who invented it reviewed numerous games and determined the trailing team has only ever come back and won 1.5% of the time.
To fix this the game plays as normal until the final media timeout - at which time the game clock (but not the shot clock) is turned off, and a goal score is established (for the TBT the goal score is leading teams score plus 8) first team to reach or exceed the goal score wins. And to discourage fouling the non shooting foul penalty becomes 1 free throw AND the ball. They say this makes endings more exciting as teams have to resort to pure basketball all the way to the final point.
I also suspect it helps keep a tournament on schedule as you have eliminated any chance of overtime (and unfortunately also any last second buzzer beaters), then they are cutting halftime to 10 minutes, going from 2 20 minute halves to 4 9 minute quarters.
So anybody experienced the Elam Ending before - and are you for or against!
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In brief, the Elam is designed to keep the endings of games exciting by eliminating the standard free throw parade that makes the final few minutes take forever, ruins the pacing of the game, and in general just delays the inevitable. The guy who invented it reviewed numerous games and determined the trailing team has only ever come back and won 1.5% of the time.
To fix this the game plays as normal until the final media timeout - at which time the game clock (but not the shot clock) is turned off, and a goal score is established (for the TBT the goal score is leading teams score plus 8) first team to reach or exceed the goal score wins. And to discourage fouling the non shooting foul penalty becomes 1 free throw AND the ball. They say this makes endings more exciting as teams have to resort to pure basketball all the way to the final point.
I also suspect it helps keep a tournament on schedule as you have eliminated any chance of overtime (and unfortunately also any last second buzzer beaters), then they are cutting halftime to 10 minutes, going from 2 20 minute halves to 4 9 minute quarters.
So anybody experienced the Elam Ending before - and are you for or against!
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