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I tend to agree, time-wasting/stalling is a horrible tactic, there are many sports that freeze the clock when the game is "dead" to avoid such scenarios.
An alternative would be very harsh game delay penalties, but with 3v3 this is going to have a huge impact on the game which doesn't seem ideal.
I'd rather see shorter games (45 minutes) that actually take an hour to play (NFL style) than an hour long game where the "live" play is anywhere from 30 minutes to 55 minutes long.
I also don't think keeping time is tricky, all sports have to keep time anyway, you just have to start/stop it (although, again, this is done anyway for "live" time to work out the stoppage time at the end).
We were robbed in Cambridge... a goal every 30 seconds before Cambridge started dilly dallying, tsk.