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Coaches
by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
DALLAS — Some basketball
change.
coaches don’t like
Others don’t seem to care one
way or another.
Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton is one
of those traditionalists who
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Accessary. So that’s why Sutton
doesn’t care for the new 45-
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I Sutton says the shot-clock f or
mat, adopted after the conclu
sion of the past season, won’t
change the style of SWC basket
ball. But, he said, the clock will
r r s change the game from the spec
tators’ point of view.
■ “In my opinion, the shot clock
ys he does j s going to have no af fect on the
111, gameofbasketball in the Souih-
eople iisbi west Conference,” Sutton said at
Sunday’s meeting of league
fcoaches in Dallas. “I think fans
iare going to be completely
screwed up this year. I think
they’re going to watch basketball
games in the Big Ten, the ACC
tod the SWC and they’re going
hat we dm towonder what’s going on in our
lerrv »|jconference.
‘I think we have the greatest
game right now' in the world ...
and all of a sudden the ACC de
cides they want to put a shot
clock in. Some of the great
things that have happened in
the sport have happened as a
result of experimentation, so
’m not opposed to that.
“But all of a sudden, it’s
« I almost like a snowball ef fect,” he
_ Kj said. "The ACC, the Big Ten
W lr and everybody gets involved in
k_y.il it,so now we’re playing with ab
out 15 different sets of rules
1 across the country.”
^ / i College basketball’s mad rush
III; io adopt a shot-clock format be-
ganwhen NCAA coaches voted
against the concept at the Final
Four in New Orleans during the
spring. Immediately after the
conclusion of the tournament,
however, Atlantic Coast Conf er
ence officials decided in favor of
a 30-second clock for their
\&Mmti league.
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second variety, chose to turn the
dock off during the final five
minutes of each game, since it
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SMU. Agj the game during that time.
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shot-clock format
Houston’s Guy Lewis not
sure if shot clock needed
picked to finish second or third
in this year’s SWC race, said: “I
don’t think it’s right. When we
came to the conference meeting
last spring, I begged the coaches
not to change the game ... hut to
play it like the NCAA tourna-
rneiat is played. But they said,
‘Well, everybody else is doing it,
so we need to make some kind of
change.’
“But a 45-second clock isn’t
going to affect the game at all. It
will prevent a North Carolina or
Virginia all-out stall — which is
good. But as far as affecting the
game ... I guarantee there won’t
be 10 times all year long that the
horn will go off as a violation of
the 45-second clock.
“There’s nobody in our
league that’s going to go out
there and hold the ball for 45
seconds,” Sutton said, “But if
you’re talking about a 30-second
or 24-second clock, 1 think that
Eddie Sutton says 45-second
clock isn’t really necessary
could change the game com
pletely.”
Coach Guy Lewis of Houston
doesn’t have any complaints ab
out the new system.
“I don’t think it’s going to
have any effect on our game,”
Lewis said. “If you can’t get an
offense started in 45 seconds,
there’s not much anybody can
do for you.
“I think it’ll completely eli
minate any out-and-out stall
game — there’s no doubt it’ll do
that. I think it’s a step in the right
direction.
“After this year,” he said, “I’m
sure the rulemakers will look at
all the results and decide
whether we really need a shot
clock. 1 voted for it, but I’m not a
bit sure that we need it in the
Southwest Conference, because
we didn’t have that many stall
games.
“I don’t mind sitting on (the
SMU’s Dave Bliss calls new
format “great” for league
ball) sometimes to protect a lead,
either, mainly because it’s pretty
good basketball. Regardless of
what people write about you af
ter you lose, it’s pretty good
strategy. I think the 45-second
clock will do one thing. It’ll get
coaches off the hook on whether
they should or should not have
stalled — and I’m very much in
favor of that.”
Dave Bliss, head coach of the
SMU Mustangs, said the shot
clock may create somewhat of a
faster tempo in the league.
“I think it’ll make this league a
very, very interesting league,”
Bliss said. “The shot clock itself
doesn’t make you think that the
game is going to change a whole
lot, but there is a certain amount
of benefit for us to have some
thing like this.
“It forces you to do some
things differently ... and you
know that you can do more de-
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fensively because they’ve got to
shoot the ball a little bit faster.
Because of that, you coach in a
different way.
“I think you’ll see additional
zones being put on in the fore
court, and I would guess that the
teams will be split between man-
to-man defense and zone,” he
said. “I think the shot clock will
be just great for our league.
Having it not in effect during
the last five minutes (of a game)
or in overtime will be good, too,
because that allows it to still be
college basketball.”
Tommy Suitts of Rice said
there might not be a need for the
shot clock, but doesn’t think it’ll
change the league drastically.
“I don’t think the shot clock will
affect our conference,” he said.
“I don’t think anybody in our
league plays slow enough for us
to need a shot dock.”
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out the nation have adopted the
shot clock or a three-point play
system for their teams. In addi
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will be put to use in college bas
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Texas Tech’s Gerald Myers
said he doesn’t foresee any prob
lems with the new format.
“The 45-second dock isn’t
going to force anybody to shoot
the ball quick or anything,” he
said, “but it still favors the zone
defense, particularly with the
teams that don’t have great shoo
ters.”
Bob Weltlich, the new head
coach of the Texas Longhorns,
said: “I think (the shot dock) is
fine, but I don’t think it’s going to
make that much difference in
our league. There’s no question
that shot docks favor the teams
that have the most talent.
“Personally, I like it. I think it’ll
be a plus for us and it’ll make for
some interesting basketball.”
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