[OPTIPLEX2001]

I'm no referee, but I know how the game works. I'm going to have to piece your post together...

For some reason, official 1 doesn't ask for a 30 sec. clock but instead proceeds to take his position as trail to shoot the free throws.

Boom. That's where things really screwed up. First of all, the referee shouldn't even have to ask for a 30 second clock - the timer should know better. (I'm a timer for my high school gym - that's required if you are going to do it.)

No sub in the game.

This is a mixed combination of faults. It's the coach's fault for not having the sub go in, the referee's fault for not counting, or paying attention to see if the sub had come in, and the table's fault for not pointing it out.

Official 2 proceeds to announce the 1 and 1 and bounces the ball to B1

I still don't get WHY the official didn't see if the player had been replaced. Especially if there's 3 of them...

A2 rebounds and throws the ball to A1 who drives in, is fouled by B1 but still proceeds to dunk the ball and then does a chin up on the rim. You guessed it, Official 1 calls the foul on B1 and then a "T" on A1

Well, since the official(s) didn't realize that A1 hadn't been replaced, this seemed like the right call at the time.

As he goes to the table, he is met by the team B coach who is SCREAMING that A1 fouled out on the previous play and that the dunk shouldn't count and that his player (B1) should get to re-attempt his 1 and 1 and that there should be a "T" for having an illegal player in the game.

The official SHOULD touchback with the table, and not listen to the coach.

The official tells Team B coach to "sit down and shut up while he confers with his partner".

A bit blunt, but hey! What can ya do?

The two officials get together and this is what they decide to do. They wipe out the basket by A1 and the foul by B1 (B's best player and this would have been his fifth). They rule that because the play should not have happened (i.e. a sub was not brought into the game) the ball was and remained dead after the first foul call on A1. They assess a technical foul to A1 for dunking a dead ball and a technical foul to Team A for unspotsmanlike conduct for having a disqualified player participate in the game.

The one thing I disagree with is the technical foul to Team A for "unsportsmanlike conduct for having a disqualified player participate in the game."

That's is half way the official's fault. Team A shouldn't of gotten the technical, as it was a little bit of everyone's fault.

[quote]Since they don't know how much time was left when all of this started they decide not to put time back on the clock.[/qupte]

I'm not so sure about that. They should know [roughly] what the time was that elapsed. It was a close game, those seconds could of mattered.

They decide to resume by having B1 re-attempt his 1 and 1. They call B1 to the free throw line and allow him to shoot his 1 and 1 and he makes both (A-53, B-53).

I would of let him shoot again, as well.

Team A coach (not to mention the fans and the varsity coach)is going nuts "you guys screwed up", etc. yelling profusely. Official 2 "T"s coach of Team A and tells him because of the two previous "T"s this "T" causes his ejection.

I guess it was his third technical.

After a delay in which they threaten to end the game if the Team A coach doesn't leave, the coach is led away by the AD, they shoot 6 free throws for the technicals, and needless to say, B goes on to win the game. When I tried to talk to these guys in the locker room, they adamantly defended their position so I quickly shut my mouth and left. The review I turned into the rating committee was not flattering to say the least. I know what I think they should have done but I'm interested to hear what this group thinks.

Read above.

Matthew

[Edited by OPTIPLEX2001 on Jan 29th, 2001 at 02:49 PM]