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Originally posted by JRutledge
You cannot have it both ways. You cannot say on one hand, "you have to follow the rules," then make distictions that the rulebook does not make about calling 3 seconds or "coaching box violations."
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Certainly I can. It's called common sense, officiating experience and adjusting to the game. Like I said, I am able to differentiate and reason. Some can, some can't. Even if there was no rule requiring me to inform a team when they used their final time-out, I still would do it. Not only as a courtesy (remember, as officials we're serving the players and coaches) but also because it's good preventative officiating. It just seems to make good common sense to do everything I can to avoid an ugly ending to a game when an excess T is called. I've seen it happen and it ain't pretty. Who doesn't remember Chris Webber for calling a T or not. I don't know if the officals notified the coaches or not (I bet they did or Michigan would have blamed them for it), but how could you not want to do everthing possible to avoid that ugly ending? It's similar to counting the players after a time-out to make sure there aren't 6 on the floor. It's the coaches responsibility too, but we also do our part right?
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