[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by twing1115

Wow!!! Egos, egos, everywhere. I never said that I was right. I was
attempting to get a professional ruling. If it is in fact illegal I will stop, as I don't want to be assessed a T. With that said keep your coaching advice to yourself. A good official can have a productive dialog with a coach. My teams are known for talking the entire game. We play an aggressive full court game where we attemp to get our opponents to rush. We trap and are all over the court. We say "shot" everytime. We say "I've got ball." We say I've got help. In traps we yell "Bury, Bury, Bury." (If youve ever played the game you understand the difference between a silent trap and a loud trap). On rebounds we yell ball. We huddle at every opportunity and never talk to officials. This year my team has recieved two technicals. One for hanging on the rim..ref was correct. The other was reaching over the line twice (once touching the ball...this is bound to happen because we chart 5 second calls and average over two per game.

Coach:

No one has thrown his ego around in this thread yet, but now I will. JurRef as quoted chapter and verse for you and very accurately described why coaches have their players do what you have your players do. We officials are not stupid, we are far wiser about the horse manure some coaches try to throw on us in the name of gamemanship and then get mad when we correctly do our job and stop the nonsense you are trying to impose upon this great game.

MTD, Sr.