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Originally posted by Kelvin green
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Originally posted by tmp44
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Originally posted by drothamel
For me, it doesn't make sense to have the lead watching the inbounder when he will probably have a post match-up right in front of him. Plus, it is easier for the trail to hand or bounce the ball to the inbounder and then back away, than it is for the lead to bounce the ball across the corner.
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Agreed.
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I cant disaree with you more here. The purpose of the lead to toss the ball in is because he is in the perfect position to watch the ball, and closest. If trail and center can't watch off ball then there is something seriously wrong.
The NCAA (men's) hardly ever had lead watch the ball and the play even when the ball was right in fromt of them. I think you are starting to see the changes influenced by NCAA women and the NBA.
I have refereed both systems and prefer the NBA/NCAA women's better. It never makes sense for a trail to make a call from 35 ft away when lead can take a step and call it from 10.
You are right that there will be low post play there but where is it coming from? The ball from the sideline. This mechanic actually gets the lead out toward the sideline bouncing the ball and watching the Whole play develop.
Trail an center watch these types of plays all the time but when we become lead we magically transform into someone who can only watch the post players...
When the ball is in the primary referee it.
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Kelvin, I see your point, but I must disagree with the last statement. That sideline call, at least until I'm told differently, is NOT the L's but the T's. Case in point, ball goes out on the sideline, who blows the whistle? Not L but T. Why? Because the L's primary is NOT that sideline but the post play out to the 3 point arc. So why just because on an inbounds does that change? IMO, and many others might I add, it doesn't.
In addition, the L should be out towards the sideline anyways doubling the line on a throw-in situation, therefore, he's already at the angle needed to "watch the whole play develop." I'm sorry, but when two-to-four 6'10" guys are banging for position underneath the hoop on a throw-in, the last thing I want to be worried about as the L is a five-second count.