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The proponents of the new rule state that the new rule has increased the playing iat
time 7 minutes, This is an impossibility beeause they have not increased the playing
time one iota. The ball is dead when the ball goes through the hoop. And had the rule-
mikers last year declared the ball dead after a field goal was made and tossed the ball
up at center the game would be identically the same length this year as it would have
been last year had that rule been adopted.

As for speeding up the game, it may or may mot speed up the gamee It is merely owing ©
to how the opponents play the bell. If the side scored upon desires to take the five :
seconds out of bounds before he throws the ball in he may also take 10 seconds in addition
to the 5 before he crosses the dividion line. Im other words, it is possible to withhold
the ball fron the offensive court fran 15 to 14 seconds after the goal is mades

Another argusent, There has never been any effort made to try to equalize the junpe
By the rotation jump it is possible to have the jumpers rotate the same as you would have
the batting order in baseball. There is no difficulty experienced in the players
lined up in their batting order in baseball. If you had a rotation of jumpers for the
tap you would have just as little difficulty here as you would have in the batting order
in baseball.

In the Big Six here on every held ball on the court during play the ball is tossed
up in ome of the three 6-focteradius circles, It is always tossed up in the circle
that is nearest to the held ball when the official declares it,

Many coaches argue about the tall fellow that bats the ball in the aire. You and I
both know that it is the tall player under a low basket that is the real difficulty. The
tall fellow still beats us umder a lowbasket, because the basketball rules do not permit
the defensive side to pull the arms down of a tall player to push him out of positions
The rule-makers have not yet gotten to the seat of the trouble, because it is the re~
bounds under the basket by a tall man that defeats the shorter mans |

T still argue for a 12—foot basket which makes the beanpole player impossible of
scoring under the baskete The referee awards the player driving in wider the basket
two free throws, And the big, tall, husky fellows nudge with their hips the smaller
men around the basket. By raising the basket to 12 feet for college players and leaving —
it at 10 feet for the high school players, most of the difficulty would be eliminated,

tT would cout a field goai for the 12 foot basket 3 points and a free throw 1 point.
There would not be the urge or the tendency to foul for a player driving in mder a 12
foot basket, because with the 12 foot basket a goal is more advantageously scored out
away fron the basket at an angle, than it is close up and wider. The are of
of rebound fran the 12 foot basket carries the ball further out on the court, and this
fact would cause the guards to pull further away from the basket. A looping shot that
would miss the 12 foot basket and fall under the basket would give the emall man an added
advantage of driving in and recovering the ball before it went out of bounds.

Now, back to hockeyized basketball, This rapid fire shimny game that is now being
played also gives the small man a chance because the big man carmot stand up under
driving for a full game under the conditions that the game is being played. This game
makes for more substitutions and for a larger squad. The coach who does not have a
large squad this year is out of luck. He may have a championship team under the old game
without reserves, but this year he must have a flock of reserves to carry ome

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