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Old Mon Jan 12, 2009, 03:26am
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef View Post
At the same time, I have seen officials in such a rush to get the game finished that they do not allow a reasobable amount of time for the team to prepare for the inbounds (NOTE: not an "appreciable" amount of time).
Once again a big assumption on your part.

Where I am from, most experienced officials would not be doing these games at all. The officials that would be doing these games do not have enough experience to work much else or they are not going to be a lot of other kinds of games afterwards. So if we just took what I have experienced, the official probably did not have enough seasoning to either wait or they were doing what they always did and it was never a problem before. That is why to assume anything else, outside of what the coach told us is really silly a futile. We were not there, we do not know what the officials was about or the situations.

But considering this is a coach at this level and asked us "if there was a rule" that tells me that likely the official was not largely at fault, but the coach did not understand what is going on (as what usually takes place with coaches at this level). And that is really the case when you are not expecting 4th and 5th graders (the basketball is bigger than they are) to not turnover the ball or to not make mistakes and you are blaming it on the official who simply gave the ball to the thrower. I do not know about you, but I have not seen a lot of well played basketball at that level.

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