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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Billy, give me all the rules about technical fouls without looking them up.
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Many, but certainly not all, technical fouls happen over a period of several seconds, for example the scorer tells you a name is not in the book, or the coach has been distracting you over a period of a few minutes. We often, but not all the time, have time to not only think about what just occurred, but in some cases we can confer with our partner to confirm that a technical foul infraction has occurred.
Jump ball violations happen in the space of a split second, often viewed by only the nontossing official. Do you honestly believe that officials today know the jump ball rules as well as they used to before the advent of the alternating possession arrow? I know that I don't. I would rather spend my study time reviewing the travel rules, or the rules on screening, or rules regarding free throw violations, rules that can be difficult to completely understand, yet we have to know them like we know the back of our hands, because we'll be seeing situations involving these rules many, many, times during the course of a game. I know that I am being lazy admitting this, but since I only observe, as the nontosser, one jump ball, in every other game that I officiate, I'm not wasting my time studying the jump ball rules more than once a season.
Note how may threads, or posts, we get on the Forum about jump ball rules. Do you think it's because all Forum members, except me, know the jump ball rules like they know their own name? Or, rather, is it because they really don't care enough about some rules that they will not need to understand for thirty-one minutes, and fifty-nine seconds, rules that most coaches, players, parents, and maybe, even their partners, don't know very well, and can't criticize their rule knowledge, or lack of, in regard to this set of rules?