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Old Fri Jan 01, 2010, 03:59pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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And You Call Yourself An Official ???

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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
If the coach asks me if the throw in is on the base line, I tell him / her "yes."
What? You seriously mean that you don't take this opportunity to enlighten the coach in regard to what the correct terminology is? It just takes a few minutes to show him that the word baseline never appears in the rulebook and if you have time, the casebook, whereas the word endline appears in multiple rulebook and casebook situations. Plus, you let an opportunity slip through your fingers to point out to the coach, in a very sarcastic manner, "Coach. Baselines are in baseball. This is a basketball game". If we don't take care of business coaches all over the world will never know the difference between a baseline and an endline. And what a sad state of basketball affairs that would truly be.
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