[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by bigdogrunnin

In Texas (2-person), trail now goes tableside at approximately 28' line about 6 feet inbounds, lead administers FT and goes away from table on the baseline (4' out and 3' feet off baseline). If it is my crew, the official that gives the "T" will be administering the FT, as I don't want him/her near the coach. The non-"T"-giving official will become the trail. In this instance, if the coach is still pi$$ed off, then the trail should look to get distanced from the coach, so position about 10-12 feet inbounds in between half-court and the 28' line (watching the all the players of course). There was another thread recently which dealt with philosophies on handling technical fouls and their administration. Do a search . . . it was within the past 2-3 weeks.

As for players, what BITS said, but we try to move them to the division line.

How about this . . . (NFHS) Team A Coach gets "T'd" in the first half. Player B1 lines up to take the FT shots. Team A Coach has all his/her players stand directly behind the shooter just outside of the 3-pt. line. In a) you instruct the players that they MUST stand behind the division line, and Team A Coach tells his/her players to stay put (he doesn't say anything to you); and in b) you instruct the players that they MUST stand behind the division line, and Team A Coach begins to argue with YOU that you are wrong. In BOTH instances the players from Team A do not move to the division line as you instructed. What do you do?

What I learned from it when it happened to me was that I need to be more careful how I phrase things when I'm trying to get players to do something that isn't backed by rule. But that may not be what you were really asking