(Area) Audubon boys basketball coach Coleman Mullenix doesn’t foresee the shot clock having a big impact in high school basketball while Nodaway Valley head boys coach Jeremy Blake says, “Absolutely I’m for it. I think it’s a great thing.” Mullenix points out this doesn’t automatically lead to better basketball. “A lot of people see a low scoring game and they think automatically it’s a shot clock that’s the problem, but if two teams are shooting a low field goal percentage some times the game is just low scoring. So I think there’s some ignorance there. A shot clock doesn’t just mean higher scoring.”
The Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union announced this week that a :35 shot clock would be implemented for varsity play in the 2022-23 season. Mullenix is not expecting much of a change.
Mullenix went as far as charting ever single possession on offense and defense for the Wheelers last year. The average length was only about half as long (18.5 seconds) as what the shot clock will be set at (35 seconds).
He refers to games where stalling us scene as “Outliers.”
Mullenix comments that shot clocks don’t automatically make basketball better.
Coach Blake makes no doubt about the fact he’s pro shot clock.
Blake didn’t think it would be arriving this soon.
Certainly a shot clock will change the style of play in some games, but Blake says “Not as much as you might think.”
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