Quote:I understand the reasoning behind it, but it had the effect of slowing down the game. This concerns me because VCU uses tempo as an advantage when it is playing teams with more talent than them, which is pretty often when they are playing ACC teams and / or in a post-season tournament. Now with these new rules in place, the team cannot drive the tempo up as much as it used to, at least that was the effect that I noticed.

 

All it seems that they have done is slow the game down to something akin to an NBA pace.