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Old Mon Dec 29, 2008, 12:08am
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1) It's a part of the natural order of rule progression, as stated in my earlier post.
Your progression doesn't make much sense.

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2) With only one jump ball (usually) a game, most coaches don't take the time to understand the jump ball rules.
3) With only one jump ball (usually) a game, coaches don't teach kids the rules about jump balls, because they don't really understand them themselves.
4) With only one jump ball (usually) a game, most players don't understand the rules about jump balls.
And that is different from any other part of the game? Change jump balls to traveling and it would be just as true.

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5) With only one jump ball (usually) a game, many officials don't practice their jump ball technique as much as we used to back in the good old days, tossing it up and into a hoop over and over again.
6) With only one jump ball (usually) a game, many officials don't spend as much time studying the rules about jump balls, and the jump ball rules are about as complex (before the toss, during the toss, after the tap, jumpers, nonjumpers, on the circle, off the circle, etc.) as rules can be for a situation that lasts only a few seconds (at the most), and happens only once (usually) a game.
I don't see any problems coming up from either of these reasons. The ball is tossed and that's the end of it.

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7) It will give us a real reason to get the captains and coaches together pregame, instead of the usual players properly equipped, wearing uniforms properly, good sportsmanship, speech that we now give.
8) Other sports start games with a coin toss.
Neither of these are valid reasons to change anything.

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Each reason, individually, is not a good reason to do away with jump balls, but taken together, as a group, I believe that a pretty good argument is presented.
It's not a good argument to get rid of jump balls because right now there is no real need to fix anything about the jump balls; you are trying to fix a problem which isn't there. It is as if you are in a debate competition and are trying to come up with reasons to support your side of the argument.
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