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Originally Posted by so cal lurker
1. At a varsity tournament, a visiting player forgot his dark game shorts and entered the game wearing his white ones instead? Is that permitted or should he have not been allowed? (When he went in the second time, he was wearing dark practice shorts.)
2. A team that was pressing had a habit of catching or hitting the ball each time they scored -- how much does it take before you call a delay of game on that. (From the comfort of the stands, I thought it was too much, but the referees did not. Interestingly, the referees did call 2 different delays on that that team (one for not coming back promptly after a player was helped off for an injury and one for breaking the plane challenging a post basket TI).
3. How much do you worry about toes on FT line. When I played, it seems refs loved to call this; as I watch my son's games, it looks (again, from the stands) like many players are just over the line and no one cares. So is that one of those "don't nit pick" calls these days?
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1. What Rut said.
2. This isn't a bad habit, it's a tactic. And officials unwilling to curb it are co-conspirators in the illegal ploy. A. Extend to them the courtesy of verbally warning them the very first time you see it. B. The very next time, warn them officially, including taking the time to notify the scorer to record the warning in the book. C. Administer the proper well-deserved technical if necessary after that.
3. As I have observed the practice, now extinct around here, I don't think it's so much that it's being ignored as it is some officials using free-throw time as a personal time-out time, not being in the mechanically correct position at the beginning of the free throw and then when the free-throw is released. They can't see it even if they were looking for it and don't want to guess so don't call it when it happens. What better way to stop it than to call it when you see it? And for any who would say, "What difference does it make?", please leave a list of violations you "aren't not-picky about" and do not call at the table so that the next crew is able to ignore the same things so as to maintain a sense of consistency from game to game.
