| Show rB Backseat k ti 1 I Dri Driving ving 1 By Frank I K Baker Telegram Sports Editor i New Cage Tactics Will Be Necessary Basketball is sure to present the thc greatest t change in tactics next winter the game has ever experienced in in a single season as a result of drastic rule revisions by thc the joint basketball rules committee The return of man five-man zone dc defense else in which the defensive team parks solidly in front of the thc backboard anc and refuses to go out after alter the attacking team resultant smaller scores and an encouragement of long shooting arc are some of the effects forc foreseen een by critics in questioning the thc wisdom of the new v rules The modifications seem to have few friends outside the thc members of ot the rules committee and the officials who will vill try anything once in in an endeavor to cure the thc stalling curse which has infested their games until the fans stayed at home At any rate the new rules are arc sure to tax the ingenuity of coaches who vho hope to build blind teams that can win and sun stilt be popular with the fans The mentors must meet the thc situation with witha a different sort of an attack than ever before and that style must include something of ot the spectacular along with its efficiency Vadal Peterson Plans to Test Rules Accordingly Coach Vadal Peterson of Utah's Redskins plans to experiment experiment ment a n bit with the thc new rules within the thc next three weeks and see how they go In actual play Peterson is isnow isnow now v directing the Ute Ule but butwill butwill butwill will be relieved of f that task by Ike at the thc conclusion of spring i iI t. t 6 LI L football in about two weeks so plans to hold his little test in the Ute gym for a I. I week beginning about May 1 The Thc drills should prove most inter inter- esting Of 0 particular value will be bethe bethe bethe the effects of at the rule requiring the thc team to advance the ball from Its back court in ten seconds and another which stipulates that a player in the thc bucket with his back to the thc basket and md in possession of the thc ball must pass or dribble out of ot the free throw line within three seconds Both rules are strictly in favor of the defense whereas they were devised devised de de- dc- dc to speed up the offense a offense a problem problem lem leni which has not confronted Rocky Roc mountain basketball The rules do donot donot donot not appear consistent with the intent for while the cry has been for bigger scores in many regions the rule makers makers makers mak mak- ers have actually legislated for smaller small small- er scores One of the chief methods of com corn batting a man five defense has been the use of a player usually player usually a tall player player in in the thc bucket as a feeder of the thc ball or pivot shooter Bill BiJl Kinner of Ogden's state high school champions Is a good Illustration of such play Yet after encouraging the zone defens de de- de- de fens rens by forcing foreIn the offensive team to advance ance into the enemy half of the thew C wC w 1 i I floor within ten seconds second the thc rule makers take away the best t implement for that barrier An offensive team tum cannot organize organ oran ize be Its attack until one of Its IL players has hn carried the ball across the thc mid- mid court line Hoe because of the short time allowed 1 to place time the ball in an op opponents opponent's opponents opponent's opponents opponent's op- op zone Dy By y compelling the thc attacking team then to stay in 10 the thc enem enemy territory the rule makers have IL made it easy for the thc defensive team jo to o cover each opponent closely closely closely close close- ly and make It hard for tor a a. team to work the ball Into the basket or in close Notre Dame Coach Dislikes New Rules George Keogan coach at Notre Dame recently conducted a set of trials similar to Petersons Peterson's plan and concluded that the thc proposed measure of or advancing the ba ball in ten seconds will wUl be more more detrimental to the thc game than beneficiaL Four regulation games were played on the Notre Dame court After the thc experiments Coach Keogan regarded as one of the Big Ten of the nations nations nation's nations nation's na na- tion's hardwood coaches concluded that 1 t. The rule is strictly In favor of ol the defense 2 Play Is jammed Into a foot 45 area making it impossible to use the back court to maneuver maneU r the defense out of position 3 Scoring will be decreased to a minimum 4 The number of held balls bans will Increase 20 per cent May Reverse Method Of Stalling A clever team with a lead may beable be beable able to do its stalling most effectively by letting the other team tham havn hav the boa ball Heretofore the safest way to h hold Jd a lead has been to hang onto the ball baU just as asit it has been safest in football foot foot- ba ball to run as lS many plays as possible before punting Holding the ball in the back court means loss Joss of ot the ba ball under the new provision Taking it Into enemy territory territory territory ter ter- ter- ter means danger of ot or held ball baU and consequent n d danger er of losing Its possession in the thc jump There There- tore fore a team with a powerful defense may find it profitable to sit tight and let the opponents bring the ball baU into their own bailiwick and nd then tak take it away from them Anyway the trials at the Utah gym ym will ill provide the answers for a lot of these questions With so many time restrictions officials will rill have ha their hands band full rull and top atop watches Spectators will rt such trifles trines a M as f and will be begin ln countIn countIng counting count count- In ing seco second d and watching the cen ter ler court line and backward passes p with the eagle ule eyes es the they now focus on the out bounds lines The new lew rules ma may eventually work but therell there'll be plenty of or confusion until teams team and tans fans adapt themselves themselves them them- selves elves to o the drastic changes |
