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Old Thu Jul 03, 2003, 08:13am
zebraman zebraman is offline
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Re: Well......

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JRutledge

This is not about exclusion, it is about importance. If a coach cannot count, than that is just too bad.


Coaches shouldn't ref and refs shouldn't coach. Who are you to decide what is important and what is "too bad?" No wonder you are always worried about getting near the bench area with an attitude like that. Not only can't you follow the rule, now it's the coaches fault. More great comic material you provide to the forum.

If you are relying on me to tell you something I am not personally keeping track of, then you probably should not be coaching.

There you go again. Sounds like instead of the coach not coaching, perhaps you shouldn't be officiating.

At that stage of the game, I am usually talking about things that affect us on the floor. Who has the last second shot? What kind of shot that team might take? If we have a double whistle, what are we doing? How much time is on the clock? Can they team take a shot or just tip the ball? Are we going to rotate to get good coverage, or are we going to lock down?

And who gets possession if we have a held ball and HOW MANY FREAKIN' TIME-OUTS DOES EACH TEAM HAVE? Pretty simple stuff for most officials.

I might even say, call the first foul, Team B wants to lengthen the game. Depending on if the timeout is a 30 or 60, that might not be a very long conversation. I have better things to do.

Like telling the coaches what is and isn't important? Rut's rules now extend to coaches as well....like a bad virus :-)

Z
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