6 on the Court -- unnoticed...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by youngump

... don't blow your whistle for six men on the court and ignore the coach. As soon as the ball becomes live, call a technical. If as Nevada claims (with your modifications), having six players on the court in a dead ball is not illegal, then why would you whistle it dead?

My brain doesn't work that quickly (anymore). Plus that wouldn't be a good answer on a written exam.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

My brain doesn't work that quickly (anymore). Plus that wouldn't be a good answer on a written exam.

Which are you more concerned with, a possible question on some future exam or an actual situation that will have to be adjudicated on the court.

Just listened to an NBA ref last night and he says too many officials are concerned about the exact rule book answer instead of making good decisions to handle particular situations. This is now what you have turned this into. You're more concerned about an exam question that you may never come across as opposed to learning ways to get this played adjudicated.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

Which are you more concerned with, a possible question on some future exam or an actual situation that will have to be adjudicated on the court ... You're more concerned about an exam question that you may never come across as opposed to learning ways to get this played adjudicated.

If the actual (but quite rare) situation ever occurred on the court, I hope that I would interpret it the correct way, practically, and by the rulebook (they're not necessarily mutually exclusive).

More importantly, in my capacity as an observer and a trainer, I want to be able to set a good example for young officials, doing things correctly, practically, and by the book. If I observe them doing something that I think is wrong, or for that matter, right, I would like my compliments, or criticism, of what that they did on the court, to be correct, both practically, and by the rules.

This is probably due to the teacher in me. I'm a thirty-plus year retired middle school science teacher. I never wanted to teach my students something that was even slightly wrong, I always attempted to keep as up to date as possible on scientific ideas, which often changed over my thirty-plus year career. I would never give my students ambiguous test questions, or test questions with ambiguous answers, or an answer that I couldn't defend 100%.

I treat my role as an observer and a trainer of young officials the same as I treated my role as a teacher, quite seriously.