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I don't know why so many officials have a thing about coaches calling time outs. Forcing players to call timeouts during live balls would be the biggest step backwards, IMO. Some of us here actually officiated back when this was the rule.
A coach wants a timeout. You know that. Now you gotta find a player who's ALSO asking for a timeout in order to grant it. Idiotic, just idiotic....mainly because too many officials lack situational awareness. |
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From the comfort of the stands, it seems to me the coach TO is destructive -- coaches become irate that they haven't been seen and referees seem to have much more difficulty telling "which came first" with respect to violations or held balls when it involved a coach TO than a player -- I suspect because they are often in opposite directions. (And it may also be that it often looks like the referee got it wrong because folks in the stands don't see when the coach asked.) Give the game back to the players -- permit fewer TOs and only let players call, er, request them. YMMV. (Heck I also wouldn't mind going back to the rule that there can't be TO after 80% of a count has expired, though I imagine that one was a nightmare to administrate, especially when the request went to an official not responsible for the count at the time.) |
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But I think you're just kicking the can here -- you won't notice the kid quickly enough, you'll still have the difficulty of knowing which came first, etc. As someone who's worked a ton of games under both systems, I much prefer giving the head coach the ability to call a timeout. Typically I know when he/she is going to want one and I have an eye in his direction. Doesn't mean I lose track of what happens on the floor, not at all. |
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The intent of the wording is to say beginning at 5, and including 7 team fouls to shoot 1-1, and then shoot 2 shots on the 8th team foul. Agreed that there is a simpler way to word that, but that was what they meant. |
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I love the two FTs on the 5th foul of any quarter and reset the team fouls after each quarter. I don't want a shot clock. Aside from the cost, getting someone to run it reliably would be a disaster. |
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Please please please NFHS...
1) Implement or at least allow two-handed reporting. 2) Let the players roll their damn shorts and wear the fancy headbands. 3) Expand the coaching box to 28 feet. 4) Get rid of the seatbelt rule. I know I'm dreaming. |
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Unfortunately, this lead to a T in one of my games this year where we didn't hear the coach right away and she decided the best use of the timeout once she got it was to berate my partner for not giving it sooner. I did games back when the coaches couldn't call them too. It didn't seem that big of a deal to me back then, but admittedly, I was pretty wet behind the ears those days. |
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Most times in the games I work a technical foul ends the behavior that earned the coach one in the first place.
I don't know if that would be the case if the coach didn't have to sit afterwards. I don't have much data on that since I only work a few junior college games a year and can only remember 1 head coach technical in those over the past 7-8 years. |
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