Should high school basketball employ a shot clock?

The NFL is proposing a change to its often unfair overtime policy, and Express-Times sports writer Tom Hinkel is not to be outdone.

Yesterday on lehighvalleylive.com, Hinkel offered his own sports rule change to combat action-free overtimes: a shot clock during high school basketball games.

The shot clock would remove the one-possession, four-minute snoozefest-worthy stall ball that dominates high school OT. It would also speed up games and make for a more enjoyable product.

Commenters are split. User tommers accepted the shot clock as an inevitability while karlsparkler vehemently refused the technological solution to on-court ennui. He explained:

In these budget tightening days, a shot clock means another school-district employee at the scorer's table to run the clock. At the high school level finding someone capable to keep a score book and another person to operate the scoreboard is a minor miracle. You want a team to score? Go out and force the issue and play pressure defense rather than sit in a passive zone or slumping man-to-man.

Do you think there should be a shot clock in high school basketball? Would it make games more exciting? Would you be more likely to attend? Or is it just another waste of tax dollars and a ridiculous solution to a problem that isn't really there?

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