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Handshakes. "I'm going to shake your hand while giving you an icy stare, after which I'm going to spend the duration of the game kicking lumps out of you/sledging/eye-gouging or anything else I can think of that might intimidate you and help me win".
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After the way the last two have gone, the bits of the World Chess Championship that don't involve the rapid tie-breaks. During last year's I actually saw one or two commentators who were anything but casual viewers suggesting this, as well.
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Fights in ice hockey. Just play the game you psychopaths.
More than one pundit on Match of the Day. I get why you need a presenter plus 1. But you don't need a second person to repeat the presenter's question back to them as an answer.
Cricket exclusively on Sky.
Basketball games as long as they are. If both teams are scoring about 100 points you'd get the same result over a 5 minute game.
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Conferences between pitcher and catcher to 'get their signals straight'.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI’ve often thought basketball would be better has a best-out-of-seven seven minute games, than one 48 minute game. So more like volleyball. But then it wouldn’t work as well for TV, because the duration would be harder to predict.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI’ve often thought basketball would be better has a best-out-of-seven seven minute games, than one 48 minute game. So more like volleyball. But then it wouldn’t work as well for TV, because the duration would be harder to predict.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostMore than one pundit on Match of the Day. I get why you need a presenter plus 1. But you don't need a second person to repeat the presenter's question back to them as an answer.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI’ve often thought basketball would be better has a best-out-of-seven seven minute games, than one 48 minute game. So more like volleyball. But then it wouldn’t work as well for TV, because the duration would be harder to predict.
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Originally posted by seand View Post
I'm going with 49 minutes.
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- Oct 2011
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- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
You can force the match to go the full distance though, if the number of individual games won is made relevant to the standings in some way. So there's something to be gained for a team clawing it back from 0-4 to finish 3-4.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostPick up basketball is virtually always played as first to 11 or 21
For the NHL all-star game they should use the pick-up rules where the team that scores a goal gets to keep playing and the team that conceded it has to sit down while a third (or fourth, or fifth) team takes there place, and repeat. The object is to see how long you can stay on the ice/blacktop/floor and still score goals before inevitably the better rested team knocks you to the back of the line.
They could do that in basketball too, but not after every basket. I think it's first to ten, usually.
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Originally posted by Kevin S View PostSnooker and tennis both work as 'best-of-X' sports with potentially unpredictable scheduling. Why doesn't this work for basketball or golf?
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Originally posted by Cesar RodriguezActually, on the subject of one horse races - Olympic basketball.
Give the trophy to the US at the opening ceremony and let the field play for silver and bronze.... Added benefit would be the opportunity to scrap the 3rd/4th game.
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