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Originally Posted by Larks
I think you are way out numbered with this philosophy.
COMMON SENSE. Do you call traveling in 3rd grade games? I dont unless the kid carries it like a football. Yet there are travels EVERYWHERE in those games! OMG, I set aside a rule!! But if I didnt, we'd be there all day and no one would have any fun. What about incidental to moderate body contact on a shot in the paint? It is drilled into to us to have a patient whistle there to see if the shot goes or not. Missed shot....foul. Make....nothing. Isnt this in a way, setting aside a rule? Or is it GOOD JUDGEMENT?
My point is we adjust the rules to each game and situation all the time so the argument that we make em up as we go isnt very good relative to the profanity issue.
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I agree with that - but I think the rules should be written to accommodate these changes as well - I had a parent complaining about moving screens a few weeks ago in a 3rd-4th grade girls game. I had a parent last Saturday complaining because we blanked out the 24-0 scoreboard in a 3rd-4th grade girls game and started over - she kept calling out the "real" score... "It's 50-2!!" and complaining about us doing that.
As for the second situation, I don't agree. If the shot goes and we don't have a foul, it takes out the "and 1" - and leaves a lot of things open to interpretation that shouldn't necessarily be. And if that was how it was supposed to be, they would say that in the rules - if the basket goes, ignore the foul.
I'm just saying they left way too much greyspace in the rules...that's all. It means the game can be completely different from one game to the next, from one set of refs to the next, etc. And this doesn't make sense to me - it never did. The game is the game - why should one rule be called/enforced in one game, and not in another (at the same level).