Thread: Opinions wanted
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Old Thu Feb 12, 2009, 02:13pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by zm1283 View Post
Shouldn't it be:

- Notify coach
- Have timer start clock, one horn at 5 (Not 15), one more at 20
- Notify player of their fifth foul

Of course if they already have a sub sitting at the table, then you obviously don't need to have the timer start the clock.

I always wonder why so many people make all the timing situations so much more complicted than they need to be.

In basketball, as opposed to soccer, all clocks count DOWN!!! As such, they start at some number (60,30, or 20) and ALL timers have a warning horn at 15 remaining and expire at 0. Keep it simple.

Isn't that so much simpler than saying the horn is at 5 on a DQ, at 15 on a 30 second timeout, and at 45 on a 60 second timeout???
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