Thu Jul 29, 2004, 07:07pm
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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by Robmoz
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
You're making up your own interpretation again, instead of using the one that we already have available. Bad Nevada! Bad, bad Nevada! See casebook play 10.1.9, and note the language- "A technical foul is IMMEDIATELY charged to team B for failure to have ALL players return to the court at approximately the same time following a time-out or intermission. While it is true the ENTIRE team may be off-court while the procedure is being used, once a team responds, ALL players must enter the court at approximately the same time".
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JR, have you had the inclination to call a T in a game for this, ever? If so, in retrospect, do you feel that you could have managed the game differently to avoid the T situation?
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Rob, I'm not big on T's like these. If I can avoid 'em, fine. To answer your question though, I don't think that I've ever been in a situation like this where I really HAD to call the T. I've used the "resuming play" procedure many times over the years, usually because a coach has forced me into it by ignoring explicit warnings to get his team out of the huddle. That means that I have put the ball on the floor if team A is late for their throw-in, or I've given the ball to team A for their throw-in if B was still in their huddle and ignoring us.
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This seems like a good time to tell my great "resuming play procedure" story. When my daughter was playing, before I was reffing, I saw this happen. It was a play-off game, the middle of the third quarter, and my daughter's team (Team A) was behind by 15 or so. The other team was feeling pretty good, since they hadn't expected to have an easy time. "We" had the ball, threw it out of bounds, and "our" coach called a time-out. Team B was going to get the ball in their backcourt, on the sideline about halfway between the division line and the top of the 3-point circle. The 45-second warning horn sounded, refs made their little noises, 60 seconds sounded, no one came out of the huddle. Team B was kinda partying -- laughing and goofing off. Team A was working hard, trying to find a way to make a comeback. Refs whistled again, still no response. Finally, the one ref put the ball down and started counting. He got clear to 5, blew the whistle, picked up the ball, and shouted "White ball!!" STILL no coe came out of the huddle! So he put the ball down again, and started counting. By this time, one clever little player on Team A realized what was going on, grabbed a teammate and hustled across the floor. She stepped out, grabbed the ball, passed it inbounds to the teammate, who shot an easy three points. Coach B went postal, raced out onto the floor screaming at the top of his lungs, and WHACK! Team A shot, and hit, two free throws, and got the ball back. Coach B now strted sulking and held his girls from coming back onto the floor. Team A gets the ball out of bounds, passed it in from the division line, and hit another easy three points. Just like that, an eight point swing in fortune. Team B still won in the end, but those of us who were partial to Team A didn't even care. We'd gotten ours!
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Fans. 
BTW, good story. 
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