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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Keeping both teams behind the division line would unfairly restrict the ability of one coach to privately confer with his players.
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I have posted about this before, but I had a partner a few years ago that not only required the players to all stand behind the division line, but told the coach on the other end of the court that he could not confer with his players because the coach on the bench on the end where we were shooting couldn't either. I guess he was trying to make things fair but he screwed up two rules (Or rule myths) at the same time.
I am also amazed that this is the only thing that no one ever questions when it is enforced. It's like we could tell them to go stand on their heads and they would do it. It has been on the Part 2 test several times too, including this year. I still hear people say they enforce it for "game management" reasons even if they know the rule.