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Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
8. F (unless, under this year's rule change, team A calls a timeout)
15. F (the play is dead at the time of the foul, the basket would only count if the ball had already passed through the basket)
How'd I do?
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Not too bad, but a few errors - and remember, we are expected to
never be wrong on a rule interpretation from the first time in our careers we step onto a court. Yes, all the questions are false
as they were in a recent post on this board.
In 15, it is irrelevant if the ball went through the basket or not. If the foul was committed by A1 before he returned to the floor, there can be no score.
Re: number 8. Your terminology is incorrect. Teams cannot
call timeout. They may only
request it. Only officials can
call timeout. Now, before you roll your eyes and think this is petty, please know that I make this correction in grammar all the time because we don't want players to think that as soon as a coach or a player yells timeout that one exists. All too often I have seen a coach yell timeout and players stop playing when a timeout cannot be granted.
Here's an incredible story. I had a spring league HS varsity game a few weeks ago where a defensive coach yelled timeout during play and two of his players started walking toward their bench. The ballhandler had an uncontested lane to the hoop and took it. This was in the last three minutes of a tied game. After the basket, I asked the coach if he still wanted the timeout. He said yes and I asked him if he was sure. He yelled at me that he said "yes" the first time and "what was my problem?" I said OK, gave him the timeout and then gave the team a T for excessive timeouts. When he complained, I reminded him he had been notified after he used his final legal one, and he said that was "bull****." WHACK number two (unfortunately, the first was an indirect so he got to stay). This was at a venue that has a house rule that all technicals are two shots, possession,
plus an automatic two points for the other team!!!
His team wound up losing by eleven. Sometimes Judge Judy isn't the only one who dispenses justice.
[Edited by Mark Padgett on May 14th, 2002 at 04:09 PM]