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Originally posted by BktBallRef
Gentlemen, play semantics all you like. It is the referee's responsibility to either notify the teams or make sure that they are notoified at the 3 minute mark. It is not game management's responsibility. It is not the timer's responsibility. IT IS THE REFEREE'S RESPONSIBILITY.
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OK, whatever you say.
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Originally posted by BktBallRef
No one is saying that the referee must go to the dressing room and get the team but he must ensure that someone has notified them. If you don't follow through with this, then you CANNOT issue a technical foul to the offending team. Hopefully, even those who don't think it's their responsibility would get off their butt and find out what's going on before they whacked somebody.
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Whacking someone for not being on the court is going to have several factors involved. As I stated, the players are on the court most of the time in my games than the officials. Why, because we are usually told last by the "people who do that thing." Again, I have worked all week long, I have only been the Referee once and not a single partner that was the Referee worried about this once. I am still waiting for anyone to worry about the "timeout" situation we talked about most of this year, you claimed was so important. I guess in your neck of the woods you worry about this, it appears with the rest of us we do not. If you say so, it is our responsibility, but it seems to get done without us telling anyone or worrying about it.
Peace