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Originally posted by buckrog64
Like I said, 500 people were standing in front of me, hollering about the throw in spot. I'm a casual observer, not a fan of either team, sitting down. I couldn't care less other than it was a substate final game and it did give a team a distinct advantage at a crucial point. It may have never dawned on Coach A that there was a potential mistake taking place, but I wasn't in his shoes.
The throw in was from half court and I believe was thrown in about 10-15 feet down court near the side line. The kid drove to the middle and went up for the shot. Foul was called.
The score to tie the game, the throw in afterwards, the timeout, was all as I described. I know you hear from all sorts of crackpots here, and some are even officials. I have no purpose in fluffing the story to make someone look good or bad.
FYI- This was a two man crew handling the game. Overall, they did a fine job, I wouldn't trade places with them.
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Hey, despite what BZ might say I don't think you're some kind of nut, far from it. I find that at the HS level refs do tend to be kinda sloppy with the spot placement, so maybe they did screw it up. If they were sloppy on that one they were probably sloppy through the entire game, and I bet there were a couple of other spots that were wrong at critical points in the game. Or maybe they were concientious the entire way, inlcuding this last one and the thing that I keep getting back to is why didn't Coach A make a big deal out of it...I know you've already said he might have but you didn't see, but (again) it's been my experience if a coach expects the ball at point A and you put it at point B he's gonna want to know why. Especially if it's as wrong as you say it is.
Anyways, it sounds like it was a good game & you had fun.