Stan Van Gundy,Tre Maddox

Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy, left, has a few words with official Tre Maddox during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017.

(Steve Yeater | AP)

LOS ANGELES -- Millennials' dwindling attention spans have the National Basketball Association with ideas on how to speed up its games.

Speaking Thursday in London, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league began studying the issue last year with regard to timeouts in the last two minutes.

Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy has an idea, but it's non-convetional and not likely to be taken up anytime soon.

"You know with me, I'm one of the few who are anti-replay," Van Gundy said. "Let's just go with the referees' calls. That ain't ever going to happen, because they don't want to watch on ESPN the next day (their wrong call)."

At the crux of Van Gundy's argument is the pace of play disrupted with replay. The NBA, which has specific guidelines requiring officials to review events like last-second baskets, flagrant fouls and player altercations, off-the-ball fouls, among other things, says the average time spent reviewing plays during the 2015-16 season was 31.9 seconds.

That's down from 42.1 seconds during the 2014-15 season, but the number of replays also rose nearly 6 percent.

"We really don't care happens the first 46 minutes, but we want to get every call right (in the final two)," Van Gundy said. "Actually, we don't even care if we get every call right in the last two minutes -- we pick and choose the calls we want to get right in the last two minutes. So, we end up in replay.

"We want to get all the out-of-bounds calls right in the last two minutes. Surprisingly, the most important thing is, we don't care about getting foul calls right in the last two minutes. But, we've got to get out-of-bounds and goaltending and that stuff right."

Van Gundy's comments came Thursday at Golden State, just weeks after he criticized the NBA for its handling of the Last 2-Minute Report.

He said he really noticed the disruption during his two seasons out of the league, from 2012 to 2014, when he served as an analyst for ESPN.

"I mean, if we're going to go replay with the idea to get it right, well, then at least let's get every call right," Van Gundy said. "Run a play, (then) let's go to the replay and make sure we got it. Let's go another play and go to the replay and make sure we got it. Otherwise, let's just play. Let's just play.

"And that's been my thing -- the time I spent out, you're sitting there just watching it and going, 'Oh God. Another replay.' I mean, referees are really good in our league. Sometimes they'll make a mistake -- that's all part of it -- and if we're not going to replay fouls, then I don't see what the point is. I really don't."

The NBA is using its Development League this season to experiment with rule changes. Among them: each team awarded a "reset timeout" to advance the ball (if applicable) and make unlimited substitutions, but not huddle; re-setting the shot clock to 14 on offensive rebounds; and a 75-second limit on the duration of replays.

"The most important calls in our game are, 'Was it a foul or not?' That's the most important -- and we're not replaying that," Van Gundy said. "So, to hell with it on everything else, in my opinion. Let's just play.

"I mean, if we're not going to review the most important calls ... I get the timing call at the end of the game. I get that. And I get things that could be done on replay while we're at timeouts and things like that. But when they've got to stop the flow of the game, I don't think that's a good thing."