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Originally Posted by BillyMac

Last week, I had a parent concerned about the opposing team's very tall and talented center hanging out in the lane too long, with occasional shouts of "thee seconds" from the stands. At one point she decided to help me by counting, however it was during a throwin and she started counting when the ball was put at the disposal of the inbounder by my partner, the lead. "One. Two. Three. Four". After the throwin was swatted back out of bounds, as the trail, standing right in front of her, I turned to her and said, "Ma'am, there is no three second count during the throwin". Startled, she replied, "Oh? Sorry", and was quiet the rest of the game.

It never bothers me when something like that happens and you explain the rule and they accept it. I had the opposite where on a one on one fastbreak yesterday an 8th grader drove on a defender who was in paint established LGP and then knew the kid was going to go to the right and got hit in the chest while moving before the player elevated. I call PC and coach went nuts. I said do you know the rule? He said yeah. I said do you agree contact was in the chest? He said yeah I ref and he has to be set. He wasnt set you gotta call a block!