[jTheUmp]

My thoughts.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Part II – Observations – Have You Seen In Your Area?

1. Illegal uniforms. No

2. Flopping. No more than usual

3. Number and uniform same color. No

4. An increase in rough play during rebounds. Yes, especially on free throws.

5. An increase in slapping the backboard. No

6. An increase in recording/reporting errors to the scorekeeping personnel. No

7. Correctable errors being administered incorrectly in games. No

8. Uniform code and adornment rule codes being properly enforced in games. No

Part III – About Rules For 2014-15 – Would You Favor

1. Not getting a new 10 seconds after a time-out called from the backcourt or a deflection. No. All this would do is add another layer of confusion for players, coaches, and officials.

2. Eliminating scoring on any charge call. Meh... I've never seen a BI/GT violation prior to a charge... why are we worried about a call that occurs so rarely?

3. Adding specific information to the rules book for cleaning up post play. Yes... if they do it for hand-checks, do it for post play also.

4. Calling a time-out and moving the ball to the half-court line. No.

5. Permitting a player to have six personal fouls. No

6. Widening the lane to 16 feet/opening up post play. No

7. Changing the closely guarded to 3 feet instead of 6 feet. Meh. (Of course, I had a coach on Tuesday try to tell me that we couldn't call a 5-second violation "if he makes a move towards the basket")

8. Adding the defensive arc to the floor. No... solution in search of a problem

9. Providing a definition for a secondary defender. No

10. Playing the game in halves. Yes. MN has done this for my entire basketball officiating career... I like it.

11. Playing with a shot clock. No

12. Adding a sock color restriction/regulation to the uniform rule code.No. No. NO. A thousand times, NO. If anything, they should remove a lot of the currently-existing fashion police rules.