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Originally posted by drinkeii
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Originally posted by LarryS
Home team up by 30 with :15 left in the game and one of the players pointed out that he that the visiting center had violated the 3 second rule. I just sighed and shook my head...like I was going to call that.
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I'm curious as to what you mean by "like I was going to call that"... if you saw the violation, why would you not either:
1) Call it, or
2) Verbally indicate that the player should get out of the lane?
This is assuming you saw it. If you didn't see it, you coulnd't call it anyway. My understanding is that you are supposed to call the game the same from the beginning to the end, and the fact that one team is up by 30, and there are only 15 seconds left should have no impact on your choice to call a violation or a foul.
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Don't know how long you have been around, but the fact that one team is up by 30 and there are 15 seconds left has everything to do with whether or not to call this violation. If an official is not acutely aware of the game situation they are not doing their job.
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Being aware of the situation of the game is one thing - but are the rules different at one time than at another? I don't remember seeing this one in the rulebook...
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you are right, it's not written in the rulebook, some officials have enough trouble understanding the spirit and intent of what is in there, can you imagine trying to get them to understand such a concept that a situation that occurs in a tight ball game may not be called the same as in a blowout...errr. guess that is what I am trying to do.