[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by BktBallRef

I love it when you try to twist things, Mark. You're getting to be as bad as Rut.

Chuck didn't say anything about stopping the game. The original post discussed resumption of play. no one said anything about stopping the clock to allow the player to tie his shoe. There's nothing wrong with allowing a player to tie his shoe prior to a throw-in.

You need to use a little common sense.

Read my original post again, I addressed the situation of not allowing the ball to become live while the player tied his/her shoe, that is a resumption of play situation.

Lets look at a play similar to my one just above in this posting. Lets change Team B score from a field goal to a free throw. Everybody knows that Team B will try to set up a press and that Team A will try to inbounds the ball quickly before Team B can set up its press defense. Are you going to not allow Team A from inbounding the ball so that B1 can tie his/her shoe, thus giving Team B time to set up its press defense. This is exactly what the Rules Committee did not want the officials to do when it changed the rules in 1963-64.