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Message: [QUOTE="Zarathustra, post: 4039088, member: 11285"] BUT.... THIS IS NOT REGULAR BASKETBALL!!! Different rules, different balls ( size and weight are different ). Different tactics, different strategy. Think Jazz and classical music, Shakespeare vs Science fiction! Softball vs Baseball, swimming vs water polo! This is an Olympic sport.... AND 3X3 is "poetry" when the Kelsey Plum, Steph Dolson, Alisha Gray, and Jackie Young did their stuff to win the GOLD Medal in Japan. Remember these players are all UNDER 18. Nations get INTO the tournament partially on PARTICIPATION POINTS or ACTIVITY POINTS ( that is why the USA is "ranked " 54th in the world (U18) and why the USA was seeded 17th in this particular tournament ( they actually should be where they are, in the FINAL FOUR ). But... I recommend that you watch the semi final game with SPAIN ( a really nice team ) and the other final games ( with, some what, more rational foul calling ), to see what this can look like at a higher level of skill. The "CHUCKING" that you refer to is usually due to the 12 second clock. With good defense by the opposition, a player will , of necessity " cluck" a shot at the basketball to avoid the shot clock violation and , if the shot hits the rim and their team gets the rebound ... a whole new 12 seconds. Better to CHUCK than hold the ball and lose it on the clock violation. I think that is how the coaches "teach" the finer points of this competition Another insight: there is a complete strategy to giving fouls , no one "fouls" out and the PENALTY for more than 10 fouls in 10 minutes is DRACONIAN= just ask TEAM USA why they lost to RUSSIA!! Clock management is also different, teams let other teams score at the end of the game, allowing one point, to avoid giving that deadly 10th foul and to get the ball back to "kill the clock", to "run the clock out". THE USA did not do this, and they lost to RUSSIA ( partially because of this "mental error". So.... It's different. Hope you can find a way to enjoy it in the future. If not, the collegiate WBB season is right around the corner, sort of. Peace [/QUOTE]

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