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Originally posted by Kelly Kinghorn
I disagree with this theory. If I were a coach and someone quoted a reference and it was the wrong one, I would light them up. "What other rules do you think you know?" "What other rules are you going to make up tonight?" "Do you really know what any of the rules are?" Those are the only questions that came to my mind quickly. If you are going to quote references--You had better know them exactly!! Otherwise, you are opening a can of worms that you don't want open IMO. Getting close will only help you lose credibility with the coach.
It is true that many of the coaches would never check the rulebook, but if one did and you were wrong, it wouldn't take very long before every coach knew about it. Remember the coaching community is probably smaller than the reffing community and they talk to each other.
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I agree with you to a point. Most coaches do not have a clue about the rulebook. It is just a fact, that you can even talk about a section, and most coaches do not have the capacity (at least at that moment) to realize that you are incorrect. I am not saying to quote wrong rules sections, I am saying that if a coach says to you "moving screen." You can say back to them, "when you read that in section 4, I will start calling it" I guarantee you are not going to hear much more about "moving screens." Now you have to have the personality and timing to say that, but I have said that or something like that many times, they have no answer for it and it shuts them up.