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Originally Posted by RichMSN
I'm always amused at the fans who don't understand the nuance of the rule. Like last night when the ball was being shot, rebounded, shot, rebounded....some joker is SCREAMING at the top of his lungs how we apparently can't count to 3. Girls assistant coach thinks the semicircle above the 3 point line is part of the lane. Another fan wants 3 seconds cause "she was in the lane six seconds" even though the ball was never even in the frontcourt for 3.
And in the game before ours (another varsity game in a holiday tournament), when I was sitting back and hearing the stuff from the crowd -- wow, I've never heard such stupidity. And not only are they wrong and stupid, they feel it's necessary, their right, and their duty to scream at the officials the entire game. I swear it wasn't this way just 10 years ago.
Back to 3 second violations -- And yet, I called another one last night. This, folks is FOUR for the season in a dozen games. Don't tell me I don't pay attention to the POEs.  |
four this season? I don't know if I've called any more than four in my high school career. It's rarely called around here, we just tell the players to get the hell out of there. If they don't after one or two warnings, or they receive the ball while we are warning them, then we call 3 seconds.
But I agree with you on the fans situation. A good one that a buddy of mine told me was that an old guy was complaining about 3 seconds (a fan). During a dead ball or time out, he went over and said "hey, we don't call that no more". haha I thought that was funny, and the guy didn't say a word after that.