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No stupid questions: Why don't teams play at a slower, more relaxed pace? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by throw-away3105@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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It seems like NBA players are more injury-prone than ever. I don't know much about basketball strategies but theoretically, each team in a match will have a nearly identical number of possessions.
So why the need to play basketball at such a fast pace? That's really tiring.

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[–] Neuroxex@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Playing at a slow pace will generally hurt the offense, but it will often come down to how the offense is played slowly. If a team waits until 12 seconds on the shot clock before starting anything then they're pushed into taking more bad shots because they don't get the time to look for better shots off of actions.

Basically the challenge for the defense is to defend for 24 seconds. If you don't do anything for 10 of those, then the challenge for the defense is to defend for 14 seconds. The latter is a lot easier than the former.