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I like some of the suggestions vis-a-vis the timeout, primarily because I hate dragging out the game, and giving television all those extra commercials.
I would be in favor of eliminating the backcourt violation altogether. After all, the whole point in to score a basket, which is almost impossible from the backcourt. And with a shot clock, there is no incentive to use the entire court as a stalling technique, since stalling is restricted to 35 seconds anyway.
Packer and Nance are OK, just as the rest of them are. In this day and age, basketball is primarily a game of individual athletic accomplishment, so the announcers are irrelevant. They almost never tell the viewer anything they haven't seen on the screen, and can intuitively understand.
Note to King. There is basketball, then there is women's basketball. Because the are only marginally related, they should never be discussed in the same article.
