The Triple Balance: A risky 40 points?

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Robert103

One of the biggest issues with trying to pull this off would be that whoever the driver of the hypothetical B3 would need to be very careful and very good in order to not get called for fouls. It's very easy to have fouls called against you when trying to play defense against a balance. 25 narrowly escaped this at Mt. Olive when they tried this same strategy. Also, B1 and B2 would need to make up a deficit of 20 points, assuming Red eventually triple balances and Blue makes a double balance. At that point, scoring 20 points becomes less of an issue of how well a team can score and more an issue of how many balls are left.

That is very true, the entire strategy takes a lot of skill and luck, but if the triple is prevented (even if there is a double) it gives enough time for blue, which will probably not be as effective on offense as red, to make up a deficit and perhaps take a lead.