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Originally posted by blindzebra
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Originally posted by mick
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Originally posted by blindzebra
I hit 2 on my count as the intended thrower gets there and gets a pass directly into his feet, and the ball goes to the wall a good 15 feet away.
Instinctively I suspended my count until the kid retrieved the ball and picked it back up at 3.
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Serious T-day indigestion is at stake.
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blindzebra,
I would have continued the count so I was not rewarding a stoopid player with the advantage. That's an intent of the rule, I think, to deny a team from using up time [while leading]. The game clock was ticking, wasn't it? The losing team didn't like that, did they?
QED, no indigestion. 
mick
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I don't feel I was rewarding a stoopid player that was trying to delay to keep the clock moving.
I had five scrubs...on the team ahead...holding their own against the starters for the other team with a couple of minutes left. I had a couple of kids that did not know what they were supposed to be doing, and an awful pass. Not some devious attempt to run an extra 5 seconds off the game clock.
I forgot to add that the team behind was not even pressing, they had dropped to pick up at half-court and trap.
In reflection, I might have actually made the game closer, because the winning coach put back a couple of starters after a turnover and a 3 point play at the other end with around a minute left.
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Stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied:
cf. F. stupide.]
1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in
understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; --
said of persons.
[1913 Webster]
The player was stoopid because his stoopid coach didn't tell him to make the throw in.
The stoopid subs were holding their own because the other team had to play by the rules, while the subs got an unintended advantage.
I certainly don't know if the winning team was up by 10 or up by 99, but whether or not a losing team is pressing or conceeding the rules of timing do not allow 20 seconds for a throw-in and then concession to the complaining coach that he was right.
[Edited by mick on Nov 25th, 2005 at 09:46 PM]