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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
I think part of the basis for this rule is the expectation that if a coach continuously goes over to the table to "check on things" it might result in that coach asking the scorekeeper to "correct" stats and that the scorekeeper might think he's supposed to take direction on that from the coach.
Besides, the table crew has enough to concentrate on without being bugged all the time by coaches.
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Sitting behind the scorers table of a Varsity game where I have players that Ive coached in the past on both teams, I saw a coach, team down by 15 near the end of the 3rd quarter and star player picks up 4th foul, go storming to the table yelling "he only has 3!!!" Game is stopped for about 10-15 minutes as the coach is screaming about how he has a count in his head of how many fouls his star players have and keeps asking his player "you only fouled 3 times, right?" The refs, coach, star player, and the 16 year old home team stat girl have a nice long discussion that basically boiled down to:
coach: HE ONLY HAS 3 FOULS!!!
ref 1: calm down coach, lets check the book
coach: I KNOW HE ONLY HAS 3, I KEEP TRACK OF THESE THINGS!! YOU ONLY FOULED 3 TIMES, RIGHT??
player: i think so. yeah, i should have 3
coach: SEE!! HE SHOULD HAVE 3!!! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE IN THE BOOK?!??!
stat girl: 4 coach
coach: HOW THE HELL DOES HE HAVE 4??!? HE ONLY HAS 3!!!
other coach: can we get this game going? and can you tell him to stop yelling at the young lady?
ref 2: we got this coach
coach: NO WAY HE HAS 4, HE HAS 3 FUC--- FRIGGIN FOULS!!!
ref 1: what do you have in the book?
stat girl: 4 fouls
ref 1: gotta go with the official book, coach
coach: ARE YOU SERIOUS??? THEYRE TRYING TO CHEAT!!! HE'S GOT 3!!!
etc, for a full 10-15 minutes. the assistant coach who is doing stats on the bench comes over, shows the refs his book. It looks like 3 fouls, 1 kind of smudged like it had been erased. He tells the refs, "i think in the first quarter, you called a charge and I initially thought it was a block, so thats why that foul was erased. He should only have 3". Mind you, if it was a previous foul, wouldnt the first box be erased and the subsequent foul just marked over it? anyways, long story short, after a long long delay, the game continues, player only has 3 fouls.
This is a coach that in every game, on every defensive possession, his opponent travels and sets illegal screens and his players never foul (even at the end of a game when they are fouling on purpose, he complains about foul calls). On every offensive possession, the defense is fouling and reaching and holding.