I had a boys varsity game last Friday night. Team A was getting beat quite badly by halftime. With a few minutes gone in the second half here was the situation: Team A shot the ball, B rebounded the ball about midway up the lane. Most of the players were heading to the other end of the court. One of the players from team A was about two feet from the rebounder B. He also was starting to turn to go and play defense. For some reason player B decided that he needed to start swinging his elbows excessively from side to side. I told him (player B) to get the elbows down , in which he did and started up court. Here is where it gets interesting. Coach from team A starts to yell that it's an automatic T, because of the excessive swinging of his elbows. He tells me that it is a rule in the book and should be enforced. As I pass him I say that I warned the player, figuring there wasn't a player near to him that he could have caused injury to. This didn't seem to please the coach from A. The rule reads as such: 10-3-8g "Commit an unsporting foul. This includes, but is not limited to, acts or conduct such as: g-Excessively swing his/her arm(s) even though there is no contact with an opponent". Was I wrong not to have called it an automatic 'T'??
I would like to know some of your opinions on this situation.
PS. My partner was going from trail to lead and it wasn't his call. He did say after the game that he probably woul dhave called it the same way. Final score was B- 73, A- 51.
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