"Basket News" today (Friday) criticized the duration of the games in Eurology, against the background of the coaches' use of challenges and the televised tests of the judges.
"The Euroleague games take too much time, it damages the standard of a fun basketball experience," claimed reporter Donuts Orbons and explained: "The dynamic basketball game we all love has become a two-hour long event, when the actual game only takes a third of the time."
For example, the defeat of Anadolu Efes this week to Zalgiris Kovna, in a game that ended with a 26-point difference and was actually not competitive at all, took two hours - mainly due to delays related to the referees' video checks.
Urbons called for a change and claimed: "Last season the coaches made an average of 0.7 challenges per game - this season it has already risen to 1.8 per game. This must be changed."
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