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  On 12/3/2023 at 11:31 PM, mpjmcevoy said:

I often look at how relatively well Great Britain is currently doing in men's ice hockey (in which it has a enjoyable but hardly top tier league and limited grassroots) and baseball (where it has no league to speak of) and wonder why GBR are so fundamentally badly run in basketball - a game with far more reach, and in which, despite everything, they seem to produce a decent number of US College ballers every year...I used to wonder was it because rugby snaffled the tall talents, but I don't think it is...

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There doesn't seem any will to succeed off their own backs. They constantly make demands for money and complain about the financial support given to other sports while ignoring the fact that unlike basketball they've actually done something to earn it. Basketball just doesn't seem willing to put in the hard yards despite being a professional sport with the advantages that brings.

 

Perhaps if the clubs stopped filling their ranks with American also rans rather than developing British qualified players it might help. I went to a school with a long history of providing women (field) hockey players to Leicester, England and GB. It encouraged fresh generations to aspire to do the same thing. The same applies to the local football and rugby clubs, particularly Leicester Tigers. Basketball needs to develop a similar culture if it is going to have greater success and build a place in local communities as football, cricket  and rugby of both codes have.

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  On 12/6/2023 at 3:34 AM, Monzanator said:

Third-place team will qualify. The third-place match is scheduled to take place by rules anyway.

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Which means the other three teams absolutely want to draw France in the semi's, since in that case you either get the ticket or get a second chance for the ticket :d 

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  On 12/6/2023 at 1:10 AM, Orangehair43 said:

It’s always quite arbitrary across football. Needs a stopped clock system like most other team sports really, 

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Not gonna happen though, football will always stay behind on other sports. Just look at VAR: it's taken absolutely ages to simply implement it, and now we're a few years later and they still didn't manage to implement it in a way that doesn't disrupt the entire game because of this weird thing with first checking if VAR will be used, then VAR looking at it and then if 'needed' letting the referee look at it anyway.

 

Still waiting for the first good referee in football: when play stops, he adds those seconds as injury time at the end. You need 15 seconds to take a goal kick? Alright, that's 15 seconds added in the end. Again, I know it's not gonna happen :p 

 

It is already a good start that since a year or so they're finally adding some more minutes at the end instead of always that bullshit 3-5 minutes.

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Yeah, stopped clock doesn't work in football. There are too long periods when the ball is out of play not to mention injuries (fake or real). The art of time-wasting is too developed compared to any other sports not to mention frequent possession changes make it impossible to penalise any infractions with a change of possession itself (like in basketball for instance).

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