[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I hate it when players do this. I believe that it's unsporting, but I have yet to find a casebook play, or an official, including myself, who would charge an unsporting technical foul on such a play. Similar situation with the, "Ball. Ball. Ball.", or "Dead. Dead. Dead.", chant that many of us hear in our games, usually, for whatever reason, girls games.

A few years ago in a scrimmage, I did warn a player who was defending the inbounder yelling, with a rapid cadence, "One. Two. Three ...". His coach asked me about it. I told the coach that I believed that the yelling was unsporting because it was trying to influence my "real" count. The coach accepted that, which kind of surprised me. I thought that he would come back at me with something like, "I've never seen that call before.", or "I've never seen that in a rulebook". He just told his player to, "Cut it out". I wish that all my conversations with coaches went as smoothly as that one, especially since I pulled the "counting" interpretation out of my a**, and really didn't have anything to back me up.

There's no way I'm letting a defender count out loud. It's unsporting, deceptive, and an attempt to influence the officials' decision. Pick a reason.