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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Personally, I think that you should learn the rules and how to apply them. It's kinda obvious that you don't know what the applicable rules are or how they should be applied.
The FED has laid out in detail exactly how they want these situations handled. There is NO guesswork or judgement involved. You do NOT ask a player to take off jewelry. You tell them that they have to leave the court immediately until they do take off the jewelry. If they choose to wear jewelry, that is their right. But they have to do so on the bench, not on the court. If the player wants to argue or doesn't want to leave, that's when you can get into technical fouls if needed. Usually a word to the coach is all that it takes. I have never seen or heard of a player refusing to leave the court when asked to get rid of his jewelry.
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and just because you have irritated me let's talk a bit about judgement. it clearly states in the rule book that a player may not stay in the lane on offense for more than 3 seconds consecutively with the provision for a player who goes to attempt a shot. what do you do if you have a player with his/her toe on the lane line, are you counting? it is clearly stated in the rulebook that you should, so why wouldn't you? what about a player who has their toe on the free-throw lane marking during the free-throw, are you blowing a violation? there are a ton of things that are "clearly" stated in the rulebook as to how they should be handled, and most of those things have a hell of a lot more to do with the game than what a kid was or wasn't wearing in warmups, so if you want to be the rulebook nazi and chase a kid through the lay-up line to make sure that he has taken off the necklace that he has on under his warmup before the game has started, more power to you....but again, i would never tell an official to "read the rule book", especially one on a message board who i have no idea about what they have/haven't done...