One thing I think it should be considered also is that a team that is losing by more than one possession and has the ball with 40ish seconds left has to try to score quickly, so the adversary will have more than 24 secs left and won't be able to just burn the clock, they will have try to score otherwise the losing team will have a chance of a buzzerbeater in the end. And on this cases So after scoring quickly, been down by one possession now (less or equal to 3) they can just defend (not foul!) and have a few seconds after to try to tie or win the game).