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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
It seems that you officiate for a well-run league which has a strong desire to discourage unsporting behavior...What you call game management, I see as undermining the objective of the policy and the league directors who decided upon it. In my opinion that isn't good common sense.
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I understand what you're saying, and that thought has crossed my mind, as well. But, really, that's just as much the reason I think I SHOULD consider some situations differently.
If it's a sportsmanship issue, he's going to get whacked just as fast (if not faster) in my city league game as my HS varsity game.
But, how many technical fouls are not sportsmanship issues?
What if it's a delay of game situation? What if it's a non-troublemaking kid who doesn't even know the rule about playing on the rim, just gets excited and hangs on too long after a dunk?
In a normal HS game, there's no problem... shoot the free throws, put the ball into play and move on.
But you can't tell me the intent of the rule is to rob a kid of 20 minutes of game time for multiple throw-in violations.
That's where common sense has to step in, IMO.