Mark -- I agree that we should not level the playing field and I wasn't trying to do that. I was counting vvveeerrryyy ssslllooowwwlllyyy for both teams, because they were very unskilled and not having much luck. This was OSAA, but not a league game. Actually I wasn't counting much slower than a lot of refs, but a true 5-second count is pretty fast, and I was criticized in the first half for counting too fast. So I slowed it down quite a bit, although I'm quite sure that I had it right in the beginning.
The girl was having trouble inbounding in this case, because the girl who was supposed to receive the ball was tying her shoes! Of course, I didn't realize it because she was behind the defender (from my point of view).
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