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Originally Posted by JRutledge
If that is the standard of using words of the game, we would not use half the words we use to talk about anything in the game with coaches or players.
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Agree, but some words are colloquial in nature and may vary between local areas. Here in Connecticut I have never heard the term "gather" to describe whether a play was a travel or not.
It appears that the NFHS wants us to tighten up on these local colloquial expressions with their
Officiating Professionalism And Use Of Proper Terminology Point of Emphasis this year.
Good luck with that.
I can't speak for other parts of the country, but here in Connecticut, officials often refer to a baseline, we count the basket, we call jump balls, the basket has a rim, some timeouts are full timeouts, players establish legal guarding position, and we work games.
When in Rome ...