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Originally posted by Oz Referee
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Originally posted by daves
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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Originally posted by Oz Referee
Scrap the AP - this is the most ridiculous rule I have ever heard of. It doesn't award good defence and is the only part of the rules where skill has absoutely nothing to do with who gets the ball.
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This is what I have been saying for years. FIBA and NBA/WNBA do it correctly. Jump balls for all held ball and situations where a jump ball is required.
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I disagree. Keep the AP, especially in women's ball. I have a bad rotator cuff and don't want to be tossing the ball up 30 or 40 times a game. Let's scrap the jump ball all together. Let's start the game and every extra period with a coin toss or rock, paper and scissors.
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Pleaseeeeeeee tell me you're being sarcastic - the rules should change because you have an injury that hinders your ability to do the job properly...maybe it's time to retire?
I referee FIBA, at all levels from Under 12 girls, up to and including State League Mens (2 divisions under our pro-league). It is very rare for me to have a game with more than a dozen jump balls (in the kiddy leagues) and maybe 4 in the senior comps. So that means during any one game I will, on average administer between 2 and 8 jump balls. If that's too hard...see above comment.
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Oz Referee:
Try doing a freshman girls (9th grade for us) game between 2 teams that have virtually no talent and see how many "jump ball" calls you have. I vote to keep the posession arrow. This also happens a lot in rec ball. This past Saturday, I did a 3-game set with 12 year old girls and my partner and I must have had 10-12 jump balls in one of the games! And there were no quick whistles...we let them "tug" a bit. Just happened to be a couple of teams (I guess) that could't seem to do anything but "jump ball".