[Freddy]

Regarding the issue, "can the L in 3-man ever rotate 'too much'?" . . .

Yes. If, for instance, the outside guards are skipping the ball back and forth without any real apparent commitment to one side of the floor to initiate a play down low. Or without any competitive post matchup to need to be observed while the ball is skipping from one side to the other. Seems there's no real need to transition to the other side at all under these circumstances.

No. As it is sometimes said, "The aim for any official is "to be in the right place at the right time to see the right play to make the right call, which might be a no-call". For the lead to rotate multiple times while, based on team tendencies or an anticipated feed pass down low to an obvious or likely post matchup is not a bad thing. While seeking to get "the slot" ahead of time, frequent rotations on the same series of plays is certainly not out of order. It sure seems more important to get oneself in position to see what needs to be seen from a good angle than any sort of artificial quota on number of times to rotate. Otherwise, as too often occurs, the reasons not to rotate will dominate over the reasons for which to rotate, and lack of proper surveillance will result.

This seems to be a valuable topic that is included in pre-games often enough that repeating it should never really ever get old.

Right?