Wednesday, December 6, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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No more stuff shots
New rules won't hurt KU
By Robert Entriken, Jr.
Kansan Staff Reporter
Two new NCAA basketball rules are in effect this season: the dunk shot is now illegal, and between the midcourt line and the top of the free throw circle a player may not hold the ball more than five seconds.
The first should pose no problems for the Jayhawk round-ballers, and the second could very well work to KU's advantage.
The abolition of the "stuffer," said head coach Ted Owens, puts KU at "no great disadvantage. But the rule takes away something the crowd just loved."
Notably absent from KU's pregame routine this season is the well-known dunk drill in which the players stuffed the ball through the hoop as the crowd kept count.
Starting center Dave Nash said he didn't like the new rule. Nash used the dunk shot "quite a lot" last year at Dallas Baptist Junior College.
"With the dunk shot I was sure I could get the ball through the hoop," he said. "A lay-up is easier to miss—I could get it too high on the backboard, or it could hit the rim and bounce out."
The regulation doesn't bother Rodger Bohnstichl.
"I never believed in the dunk," said Bohnestichl, who prefers the lay-up.
"Ninety-seven percent of the dunk shots were made when people weren't around." Owens said.
"I may be able to block more shots," said Nash. "Before, the man on offense could stuff the ball in, while the defender could not pass his hand over the rim. Now the shooter can't pass over the rim either."
The new rule does make the opponent's center easier to defend.
Although designed to place more emphasis on the little man, it seems the only people who really lose are the spectators.
The five-second rule, on the other hand, should result in even more action on the court and aid KU as well.
"It's a good rule," said sophomore guard Rich Bradshaw. "It'll prevent other clubs from holding the ball when we're playing stronger teams."
Bradshaw was referring to delay tactics KU's opponents may try to use. No longer can a team rely on one deft ball-handler to stall for its team.
Former librarian goes to Rutgers
"He might be in a little trouble," said junior guard Jo White.
Kidman was at KU 1954-59 and was known to many Lawrence residents through occasional work at the Lawrence Public Library. He was one of many young men brought to KU during the library directorship of Robert Vosper who since have gone to directorships or similar responsibilities at other large schools.
Coach Owens said a good delay game should not rely on one man anyway. "A good delay means passing the ball, not holding it," Owens said. "We have been working to do this."
"Some teams press at the top of the free throw circle," noted guard-forward Phil Harmon, "but we press at the half-court line. We can trap an opposing guard in a corner at midcourt. It should get a lot of calls for us."
White, the quarterback of KU's offense, said the rule "makes you conscious of not holding the ball. If you take too long to set up the play, five seconds will be called before you know it."
Roy L. Kidman, former science librarian at KU, will become chief librarian of Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey, on July 1, 1968. He now is in charge of libraries at the University of California at Riverside.
KU has already taken advantage of the five-second rule once this season. Utah State was called for holding the ball too long and the Jayhawks won the resultant jump ball.
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