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Message: [QUOTE="Travelman6, post: 2041017, member: 7597"] Many fans disagree with me but never really have a response to me, but here are my thoughts. I have been watching b-ball since 1992 when I was in second grade. I have always felt this way, even in second grade and I remember asking adults why there were so many timeouts in the game. It kills the action IMO, the excitement decreases with too many breaks in the action. I am living in Colombia and the biggest complaint down here, when I try to get other people into the sport (college ball) isn't what you would think: "who is this team and why do I care?" No, not that, but "there are just way too many timeouts!" is the biggest gripe. It should not take 2 (or more) hours to play 40 minutes of actual basketball. It will never happen but in a dream world they would completely do away with the useless TV timeouts at under 16, 12, 8 and 4 minutes. Well, they are only for ads, most fans hate them of course. I think basketball should take a page from other sports that find ways to advertise without so many dang breaks in the action. It is possible. So in a perfect world they would give each coach maybe 3 60 second timeouts and 2 30 second timeouts per half. Better yet, do what every other basketball league does and finally move to 4 (ten minute) quarters. Then you can have 5 minute breaks in between quarters even, and give 2 60 second and 1 30 second timeout per quarter, carry over a maximum of one to the second half. Than it would take around 75-80 minutes to finish a game instead of this 120 minutes. But yah, that will never happen, but one can dream. [/QUOTE]

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