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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Or, Team A is up by two with five seconds left in the game and A1 is on the line for a 1+1. Team B has no timeouts left in order to freeze A1. B1 shoe is untied and you stop the game to dry floor so that B1 can tie his shoes.
The Rules Committee in its Editorial Comment address such plays and wanted these types of delays eliminated.
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In the second case there's no reason to NOT let B1 tie his shoes. And there's no reason to find a nonexistent
wet spot on the floor, or the ball. Just don't bounce the
ball to A1 until B1 is done. It falls under the heading of "common courtesy". IMO.
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Its not a matter of common courtesy. The Rules Committee changed the rules so that Team B could not benefit from the actions of B1. If B1 wants to tie his/her shoes, that is his/her perogative, but A1 has the right to shoot his/her free throws in a timely manner and not be frozen by the official who is showing a common courtesy that the Rules Committee specifically prohibits.
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The people who play in the games I ref take no more than 5
seconds or so to bend down & tie a shoe. If one of these
people looks at me & points to his shoe I will not refuse
him the 5 seconds. If before I bounce the ball I notice
someone bending down I'll wait. If I've already bounced
the ball and notice someone bending down I'll blow the
whistle & take the ball back. Common courtesy, but you're
one of the self named "rules gurus" around here, why don't
you post a reference that says "thou shall not delay the
game to let a player tie his shoe before administering a
free throw". As for this notion of "freezing", IMO this
is a mostly overblown notion put forth by sports announcers who need something wise to say during dead periods in the game.
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Go to my first post in this thread. I explained how the Rules Committee changed the rule starting with the 1963-64 season. [/B]
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That's it, huh? Maybe I'll get me one of them handbooks
and look at it, but I tend to doubt it reads as you relate
it here. Got something a little more convincing?