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Originally Posted by Old School
How does my integrity come into question when I know there is time left?
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I said, "If you're going to lie…." That puts your integrity into question. You could be brutally honest and say, "You know what, I know my whistle sounded before the horn. I don't know how much time should be on the clock, but I know it was roughly .4 seconds, so that's what we're going with." If you do this, though, you risk the fact that the coach who would like to see no time on the clock actually knows the rules. If he does, then the assigner is going to hate the conversation with the coach, and I guarantee the coach will win and you may very well be done working at that level.
Others might suggest your integrity could be called into question based on the fact that you are deliberately setting aside a rule, regardless of the reason. I'm not sure I could disagree with them.
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Originally Posted by Old School
Whether i see the clock or not, I know there is time left. I get the fact that HS is trying to dummie it down.
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No, they're trying to make it fair to everyone since they don’t allow the use of monitors.
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Originally Posted by Old School
When we're talking less than a second, and so much of what we do is judgment and subjective. Less than a second is less than a second. At best, at worse, my judgment can only be off a second.
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You say this as if it's an insignificant amount of time. The fact remains this decision could very well cost a team the game.
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Originally Posted by Old School
We are in a no-win situation here Snaqs.
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I agree with this.
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Originally Posted by Old School
If i acknowledge the time, one side is going to say, how can you do that, the game should be over. The other side is going to say there should be time left, and if you say, well I didn't see the clock and therefore have no idea what to put back on it. GAME OVER! Oh yea, that's gonna go over real good.
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You're right, your'e going to pi$$ off one coach regardless. So, you'd better have the rules to back you up after the game.
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Originally Posted by Old School
To me, my opinion, go with your judgment. I've been doing it the whole game, why should I change now with the game in the balance. I gonna go with a game management call here, let the players decide the outcome not the rulebook. Most everybody, coaches, players, fans will appreciate that line of thinking and reasoning.
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My opinion is that this is wrong and will get an official into more trouble than going with the rules.
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Originally Posted by Old School
The only people that disagree, is the people on this forum, and you live in your own isolated world of basketball because real world, this is more excepted.
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You really aren't this full of yourself, are you?