REPORT OF RESEARCH COMMITTEE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES
MORRISON HOTEL, CHICAHO, ILLINOIS

Mr, Valentine Lentz - Chairman.

Mr. President, Members of the National Association of
Basketball Coaches and distinguished cuests.

Our President, Mr. George Edvards; our secretary,

Mr. John Bunn and the Chairman of this Research Committee,
acting on the wishes of the last convention, have tried to make
this committee nationally representative and also to have re-
presented on it the two principal participants in our same, the
Colleges and High Schools. With this in mind the following men
were asked to serve, all of whom graciously accepted. Mr. Pierce
works, representing the west coast; Dr. Forrest C. Allen, re-
presenting the Middle West; Mr. H.V.Porter, representing the High
School croup, and your Chairman representing the East Coast.

In making this report I do not speak for the entire committee,
as it has been possible for us to have only one meeting togather,
so I am askins the permission of the chair to allow each member to
have the floor either to add or substract from, the contents of my
findings and to give his, or his section's, opinions in the matters
of importance to this committee and t9 you.

In an effort to find out what the members of this Association
were doing in regard to rescarch, your chairman wrote to many of
the leadinz coaches of the various sections of the country for
contributions. A few were very co-operative. From the replies re-
ceived the following problems seem to heve been given the most
thought during the past season:- |
. The effects of the elimination of the center jump.

. Extension of the playing space under the basket to
four fect,

. The twelve foot basket

Jump balls from the three six foot radius circles

Lack of unifornity in equipment

»« Tem second rule

. three second rule

In this report we shall take each of these problems sep-
arately, and give you our findings and our recommendations.

1. The effect of the elimination of the center jump. Many new
situations have come into basketball with the elimination of the
center jump and many discussions have been held about these sit-
uations. This is always the case when any decided or important
change has been made in the rules. There is no reason why part-
icipants in the game should become alarmed or hysterical about
them. We should be patient, for in due time all these situations
will adjust themselves and the rapidity of that adjustment will
depend largely on how rapidly we coaches adjust ourselves.

Some of the findings developing out of these situations are
listed as follows:-

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