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Once we hit the 15-minute before gametime mark, we have many duties and none of them include stretching. Personally, I don't "lose my stretch" in the 15 minutes I have to wait once I leave the locker room and head for the floor.
As far as being "unprofessional," I was thinking of it as a ref observing another ref. I highly doubt that any coach or fan would give it a second thought (unless you were laying on the floor doing that "back stretch" with your legs kicked over your head exposing that non-athletic rear end).
There are definitely exceptions to this "no stretching on the floor" routine such as an afternoon game that we arrive at straight from work and don't have time to stretch out in the locker room or back to back games. And I'm sure there are others. I can't imagine rating a partner down for stretching, but then again, I've never had a partner who stretched on the floor before a game. :-)
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