[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by crew
i understand what you guys are saying about the resuming play procedure. federation is the only basketball institute that observes this rule(except fiba, i dont know). i might even use it early in the game or early in the 4th qtr. however i would avoid it at game ending/winning situations. my opinon is that the rule is archaic and will eventually be deleted from the book. i would not want to be the reason a team won or lost a game even though it is a technicality. i consider this play similar to making a bad call at the end and the game won on undeserving freethrows. forgive me for coming off as an *** earlier.

ARCHAIC!!! You have got to be kidding!

There has to be some structure in place to get make the ball live and to put the ball back into play. If you remove the resuming play procedure from the rules book, then the only recourse is to charge a technical foul for delay of game to the team who is not ready to play immediately after the second horn. It will not matter whether the offending team is the team making the throw-in or the defensive team. Which rule would you like to see in place: the resuming play procedure or a delay of game technical foul.

If you drop the resuming play procedure from the rules book the coaches will delay and delay and delay and there are officials will never call the technical foul because they do not have the intestinal fortitude to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.