Can we start a discussion on how to influence the decision to use shot clocks in public schools? When will they make this change? If girls are going to play in college they need to get used to shot clocks.
In a recent game a local public high school coach had her team hold the ball (not passing just standing there with the ball in player's stick) for 19 consecutive minutes. Yes 19 minutes in the second half. Out of a 25 minute half, the ball only moved for 6 minutes! The fact that the coach used this tactic as an opportunity to "stick it" to her former high school is a whole other thread. But if a shot clock were in place it would have prevented this type of poor sportsmanship.
While I don't disagree with this, my daughter is on a team that often destroys some teams and we pass the ball around so we don't run up the score once the score is already "out of hand". I know this can happen in private schools, too, but not sure to the same degree as the public schools. Maybe if they do institute this there could be divisions in high school, too.
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