[so cal lurker]

Curious about a couple of things from the last couple of minutes of a close game last night. HS varsity tournament.

#1. White running half court offense. Half hearted screen being set that the the dribbler doesn’t appear to be planning to use. Whistle from the official clos to the play. In the stands, we can’t figure out what happened. Inbounded for the same team. We hear after the game that the ref stoped play to tell the player defending the potential screener to stop poking the screener or he’d be ejected. No foul. Does that make sense? Seems to me it’s either a foul or play continues, with, perhaps, a “knock it off” while play continues.

#2. Just under a minute, the team that is behind scores to bring it within 4. Player on that team grabs bal and makes a chest pass throwing the ball all the way to the corner of the court where there are no players. Ref immediately whistles and issues delay of game warning. Right call? Or just let clock keep running while ball is fetched? Or is it so blatant that it should be an immediate T? The stop and warning was clearly beneficial to the team “warned.”

(There was a third odd clock stoppage with under 20 seconds. Team leading by two inbounding after other team scored. Touchdown pass for a dunk to lead by four. Whistle. Nothing called. Still no idea why.)

Odd end of game.