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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BktBallRef
I would have followed the interpretation that is directly on point for this play. How can you ask people what they would do and not expect them to refer to the rule book and case book? That doesn't make any sense. The case book says "visiting team" but in real situations, you'll never know for sure where the supporter is from. But that doesn't mean we ignore the case play. Using your interp. the case play shouldn't even eixst.
If you read case 2.8.1, you'll realize that it's not as cut and dried as you're making it sound.
Here's a quote: "While officials do have the authority to penalize a team whose spectators interfere with the proper conduct of the game, this authority must be used with extreme caution and discretion. While the authority is there, the official must rarely use it, because experience has demonstrated thta calling hasty technical fouls on the crowd rarely solves the problem and may, in fact, result in penalizing the wrong team because the official may not have proper knowledge as to which team's supporters were responsible for the unsporting act." Yep, that pretty much describes the situation.
No, I wouldn't call technical foul either for one occurrence. But if it happened again and again, game management didn't take care of it, and I'm sure it's the same person sounding the horn every time a team shoots, I would be forced to issue the T.
It happened twice. That isn't "again and again." I respect your opinion and judgment based on many of your posts here. What would you have done?
What you did was fine for your game and you got away with it. But make no mistake, it was wrong by rule.
Exactly. And it was the best I could think of at that time and I was hoping someone else could think of a better way to handle it. It isn't as black and white as you make it sound and I think you know that.
Z
[Edited by zebraman on Jan 19th, 2004 at 11:11 AM]
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