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Old Wed Sep 22, 2021, 02:06pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Anybody Can Screw Up A Rule ...

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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
Of course there will be people that do not know the specifics of the rule.
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
Confusing dribbling across the division line (three points) with stepping across the division line (player location) is a common, but unacceptable mistake.
Agree. Anybody can screw up a rule, or an interpretation, even me, even the best officials, even the best "rules" officials, even JRutledge.

But it isn't just the wrong reasons that bother me, it's the large number of trained officials who answered correctly, but with the wrong reasons.

And unless one, as an IAABO member, scrolls through each individual response on the website, one won't begin to understand the depth of this problem because these "correct" answers will show up in the final results as "correct".

I hope that the IAABO Co-Coordinators of Interpreters address this "dribble" issue in their play commentary.
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