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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
JRUT -
You are completely inconsistent in your so-called logic. Your response is that I need to keep a book, but that isn't really relevant. My book doesn't count, and it is your job to tell me when the official book says I am out of TOs. My having a scorer is irrelevant if my scorer's version of events will have no impact on your decisions.
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Well you want to know something, your book does count. It counts a lot. Because if there is a dispute, chances are your scorer is going to tell the officials of any situation that is not correct. And as an official, we only go with the "official book" if we do not have any definitive knowledge to solve the problem ourselves. But many times, we might change what is in the official book, if the vistiting team's book. For example, an issue with a 3 or a 2 point shot. Or who we called a foul on with 4:12 in the 4th quarter. I also assume that if you have a home game, the scorer was assigned by your AD or Game Management. So if your book is the "official" one, you better have them trained accordingly. All I do is tell them what I expect and ask them if they have any questions (if I am the Referee), but in the real world, they might not do anything I want (like marking in the book before we have reported a foul). There is the real world and there is the rulebook. In the real world, everyone does not behave the way it is stated. I am only going to worry about what is important to me to manage "my" game. And this never seems to be a top 10 issue with the official I work with or myself. [/B][/QUOTE]
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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
You say you will go by the official book and I agree. You need to tell me what the official book says, because my book can have it right but we will be held to a book that may be wrong. I need to know that the official book says we are out of timeouts, and you're supposed to tell me.
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I do not
need to tell you anything. In all cases, you spend more time next to that table than I do. You do not move around the court as I do. If you have a question about the book, ask them. It is allowed in the rules, as a head coach you can confer with the table about mistakes with timing or scoring (10-5-1c). Also in the real world, the head coach is the only one that can do this, but if the Assistant coach does this as well, I am not going to worry about it, as long as they are not yelling at me. You have the ability to ask for a timeout if something is incorrect and the Referee has to sort it out. If I am going to tell you at all, it is the responsiblity of the scorer to say something to me (or my partners), not for me to find out or seek this information. And if you have been good and not complaining all game, I will gladly give you information that is
passed along to me thru the scorer. But I am not going to find out, or make sure what I think is correct. Just like every other scoring issue, unless I know something is wrong, I am not going to bother them all night to find out. Sorry, I think they have a job to do, and me coming behind them all night is not one of my duties.
Peace
[Edited by JRutledge on Jul 3rd, 2003 at 12:41 PM]