21 hours ago, brooksville said:

In reality how many times have you seen that happen when a team stalls the ball the entire game?  I’ve seen teams play slow, but I’ve also seen plenty of great games in the 40s.  Let’s not forget in college last year South Carolina led Arkansas 32-14 at the half.  A shot clock doesn’t mean more points, it just means more shots.

More bad shots. 

18 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

1. I like it. I wanted a 40 or 45 second shot clock, but I can live with 35 seconds.

2. Is this a two man job? Can't the person running the game clock run the play clock also? It seems to me that technology can make it so one person can run both. 

3. People are focused on this being all about offense but I see it helping a defense. If you can play great defense for 35 seconds, you can force a bad shot.

I find it extraordinary difficult to believe that The Association’s thinking on this is to improve defense. 

17 hours ago, PurplePride92 said:

I’ve seen enough KY High School basketball to know this is a bad idea but whatever.  Modern times, yada yada yada.  
 

Some bad basketball is about to be played.  

You mean even more bad basketball. 

The worst reasons are:

A.  Prepare players for the next level.  What percentage of players is that?

2.  Make the game more enjoyable to watch.  Since when is  the aim of high school sports to make the fans happy?  I always kinda thought that the players should come first. 

D.  Everyone else does it. So what?
 

Get off of my lawn. 

3 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

If the PA is good, I  think he/she could do the score plus PA. Then clock is clock only. Scoreboard keeper adds a monitoring eye on scoreboard info.

Have you ever done one of those jobs, much less two?

On 9/17/2025 at 5:36 PM, brooksville said:

The KHSAA board president said he wanted a shot clock to bring basketball in Kentucky to “modern times”.  If that’s what they want, then wouldn’t a class system for basketball be the next move?  Or do they pick and choose when to use the “modern times” logic.  

Pick and choose. Constantly talking about what other states do except when it comes to classification. 

On 9/17/2025 at 7:51 PM, rjs4470 said:

I don't think it will be as bad as many think to find people to run the clock. I think there will certainly be some growing pains and mistakes made especially in the beginning. Some places may struggle, but most programs have a dedicated few people involved that are knowledgeable enough, and willing to chip in to help out. 

Have you seen college games where they have to review shot clock violations and if it touched the rim? 

14 minutes ago, sweet16 said:

Pick and choose. Constantly talking about what other states do except when it comes to classification. 

And that is eventually coming as well. 

The vast majority of coaches who I've known and have heard talked about this idea over the years are against the shot clock.

I do not think this is a good idea.

7 hours ago, 9068 said:

Have you ever done one of those jobs, much less two?

Yep.

8 hours ago, mcpapa said:

I find it extraordinary difficult to believe that The Association’s thinking on this is to improve defense. 

Absolutely not the reason why the Association made the change and I would be shocked if the word defense was said even once. But a byproduct of shot clock IMO is that it will help a good defensive team.

11 hours ago, Pi said:

And that is eventually coming as well. 

I hope you're wrong but I think you're right. Too much chatter about it - there's a proposal by different schools at seemingly every BOC meeting.

Could this be a Varsity only thing? It is hard enough to get just a normal clock keeper for freshman/jv games, also majority of those kids aren't ready for the speed of a shot clock at their skill levels.

39 minutes ago, ACfan4 said:

Could this be a Varsity only thing? It is hard enough to get just a normal clock keeper for freshman/jv games, also majority of those kids aren't ready for the speed of a shot clock at their skill levels.

I would hope so.

Fr/JV don’t need for various reasons. The biggest being that the Varsity coach isn’t going to want future players to play stall ball.

19 hours ago, mcpapa said:

The worst reasons are:

A.  Prepare players for the next level.  What percentage of players is that?

Approximately 3% of high school boys play college ball.  That percentage is a little higher for girls.