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Old Sat Aug 03, 2013, 05:15am
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After a few suggestions from Forum members, here's where I currently stand at this point. A reminder, this is a list of Things Officials Should Probably Not Be Saying In A Game, things that officials often, or sometimes, say during a game that do not have any basis in the rules.

"On the floor" (for fouls against players who are not in the act of shooting).
"Don't move" (before a designated spot throwin).
"Hold your spots" (before the jump ball).
"You can't stand behind him" (before a the jump ball, to a player who is directly behind an opponent, who are both ten feet off the circle).
"Everybody get behind the division line" (during a free throw for a technical, or intentional, foul).
"Let it hit the rim" (before a free throw).
"Over the back" (on a rebounding foul, it's probably a pushing foul).
"Reaching in" (on a foul against a ball handler, it's probably a holding foul, an illegal use of hands foul, or a hand check foul).
"Coach, you have one timeout left" (when, by rule, we should only be notifying head coaches when their team has been granted its final allowable timeout).
"Sit down" (to a coach who has not been charged with a technical foul).
"You have to take out your earrings" (instead of, "You can't play with earrings").

Any more additions?
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Last edited by BillyMac; Sat Aug 03, 2013 at 10:15am.