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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
Preventive officiating is when you prevent a player from breaking the rules.
"Clear the lane!"
"Hands off!"
"Straight up, guys!"
There are penalties that you can enforce, if a player handchecks or dislodges a player in the low post or stays in the lane for 3 seconds. But with 2 or 3 words, the player doesn't actually commit the infraction. That's preventive. You've actually prevented the infraction. Hence the name "preventive officiating". See the connection now?  |
Sigh.....
And if they don't (1)clear the lane,(2)keep their hands off, or (3) don't go straight up, then howinthehell can you call it preventive officiating? You haven't prevented
anything. All you're doing is telling a player
not to break a specific rule.
Which was exactly my point......
The rule on intentional fouls for a defender going OOB and fouling an opponent on a throw-in is preventive! It was put into the book to stop defenders from pulling that nonsense. Aamof, you can also say that
every rule in the book is preventive in nature. Whether it actually prevents what it was intended to prevent is irrelevant.
And further.... if stopping the clock in the last minute is supposedly "preventive", then what is preventing a defender from
STILL going OOB and fouling the thrower, even though the clock is stopped?