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Old Wed Nov 02, 2005, 04:35pm
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Originally posted by Hartsy
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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Originally posted by Jim Henry
I get it. Fix-able before the WRONG team gets the ball. But not fix-able or correctable after the WRONG team scores the basket. Right?
I know this answer will displease many, if not most, here, but...

That's right, if you're taking a rules test.

However, in real life, if this happened to me I would take the points off the board, reset the clock if I knew what the clock was supposed to be before the throw-in, apologize to the coaches for being an idiot, and give the ball to the proper team.

Flame away
Not quite a flame, but if you like, you can take it that way.

My opinion is that some of the problems we face as officials arise from the fact that calls are not made the same from one game/one official to another. It's bad enough to have differences occur due to judgement or "style", let alone differences due to not knowing the rules, or just plain disregarding the rules.
So it's better to know case 6.4.1 situation 69 than it is to know which team (only 2 choices, BTW) is SUPPOSED TO GET THE BALL?

It's a good thing I'm not a coach, because after you ruled this way against my team, I'd likely get tossed.
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