Some rule changes needed in both college and the NBA:
1. Eliminate media timeouts.
2. No live ball timeouts. If the ball is in play, you cannot bail yourself out of lousy play by calling timeout. The only time a timeout can be called is either when the clock is stopped or after a made basket before the ball is inbounded.
3. Each team would be allowed 2 full and 2 30-second timeouts per half.
4. Halftime reduced to ten minutes.
p.s. And though it's not a "rule" change, in college, the officials need to do a much better job of protecting shooters by calling the foul when there is contact. I don't mind that they let some contact go un-whistled when the offensive player is clearly initiating the body contact, but it's gotten bad, and the quality of basketball in college has declined dramatically in the past ten to fifteen years in part because of it (and mostly because of AAU--but that's another story).
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I don't watch basketball all that often, but from the little I've seen, I think your suggestions make sense. Especially about the media timeouts. That goes for all sports.
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