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Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef
Juulie,
The ONLY thing that I am attempting to do is EXTEND THE TIME we can FIX an OFFICIAL'S OBVIOUS MISTAKE when awarding a throw-in. Currently, we can already FIX the MISTAKE UNTIL the throw-in ends. I am merely extending the time.
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I understand exactly what you're trying to do, and I agree it would be nice. I wish we could do that, too. I'm just disagreeing with how you want to do it.
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Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef
The problem is not an inablity to "keep the rules straight about who gets possession at the beginning of each quarter", it is a simple MISTAKE that officials make on a fairly regular basis.
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Actually, I've only done it twice in 10 years, and I'm sure there are refs who've worked 25 years without ever making this mistake. It's a simple mistake, and also very, very easy to avoid.
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Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef
The error can ONLY be corrected until a change in possession or the ball becomes dead (i.e. If the correction has not been made before the ball becomes dead or a change in possession, the error is ignored).
This means that if you did not stop play BEFORE a basket, a foul or a violation, the error is ignored.
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I understand what you're trying to say here, but trying to define it in the book in a way that could be consistently put into practice, and that would make sense to everyone would be nearly impossible, I think. I just think that however reasonable you and I are, others may not be quite so capable
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Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef
I understand that this will not correct all of these Wrong-Team-Throw-ins, BUT it would likely catch about 80-90% or more. I know more than one official who has made a correction to match my proposed rules already.
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Well, he can keep making that correction, or he can plan to move up and get better. I recommend he work to avoid the problem instead.