I went and watched a matchup that I will be officiating about three weeks from now - it will be the third time these two teams play each other.
I am familiar with both coaches. With one of them I have officiated a lot of baseball games (he is a great umpire) and done a few of his basketball games. The other is a hot head that I used to T-up quite often when he was a JV coach. He likes to play a lot of head game stuff - asking for the number of who committed a travel 30 seconds after it is done and gone... and of course other stuff that is worthy of a T. This will be the first time I have worked a varsity game for him. This coach teaches a lot of skirting the rules type tactics - illegal screens, holding, off ball mayhem. (I actually look forward to working his games because of the challenge - and the level of play.)
I noticed a couple things during the game that went completely uncalled. Guard stops and passes on side away from Trail (2-man) then immediatly takes off for the other side of the lane and while the Trail is watching the ball (still in his primary area) the offensive guard throws an illegal block. It would be easy for the Trail to not see this - and apparently he didn't because it went on all game. I'm not certain that this is a taught tactic but it sure smacks of the coach's style. I'm gonna be watching for it and will call it - I can hear the coach getting excited already.
Second thing that the coach did was that all his timeouts were held at the top of the key - slopping water around in the middle of the court and then requiring an additional 15 seconds to clean up their mess. I seem to remember a rule that
timeouts are to be held in the vicinity of the bench. Where is this rule?
The teams have split their matchups. In this game the "tactics" team won after not scoring a single point in the first quarter! Top flight, varsity boys basketball and not a single point scored by that team for nearly ten minutes. Then they comeback and win!
Someone help me out with the timeout rule reference and give me any
advise about calling things that previous officiating crews have not recognized or called.
I found the rule 5-12-5:
- The 60-second time-out conference with team members shall be conducted within the confines of the bench area. Players shall remain standing during a 30-second time-out.
but this is specifically for the 60-second time-out.
Can he be out in the middle of the court for his 30-second time-out?