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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
I guess you and i will have to agree to disagree. I'm not just a rule book official. I will also use common sense. My opinion from my experience is different from yours when it comes to ugly games concerning block/charge under the basket. I would bet anything i could watch any official in any game and find many things that were not officiated strickly by the book.
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This is not a case of common sense. Common sense when the coach strays out of his coaching box towards the endline to coach his team in violation of the rules and instead of calling a technical foul on him which is what is required by the rules you quitely remind him to step back into the coaching box as you go by him.
But when officials start using the phrase "common sense" to explain why they will not enforce a rule is because the do not know the rule or understand the rule. I do not buy the "common sense" explaination for not calling a foul in this situation.
I had two officials tell me just last week that everybody knows from "common sense" the when a player who is dribbling down the lane is fouled anytime after he stops his dribble and before he releases the ball should never be considered to be fouled in the act of shooting unless the foul occured while he was releasing the ball because coaches do not know the rule and "common sense" tells the coaches that is when the shooter is "really" in the act of shooting.
We do not apply the rules by the way non-professionals, who do not know the rules, think the rules should be applied but by the ways the rules are supposed to be applied because we are the rules professionals not the coaches.