Free Throw Situation - How to Handle

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

... standing on the sideline grabbing a sip during a free throw is comparable to running up and down the floor with a bottle in your hands.

They aren't comparable (from two widely separated ends of a spectrum, standing versus running around), and yet, they are comparable (it's the same spectrum, water being consumed on the court during a live ball).

I would allow one (the former) but I wouldn't allow the other (the later). The question on the floor is what rulebook, casebook, or annual interpretation, citation can we use to support our opinion?

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I responded, "That's all you got? I've traveled thousands of miles, and all you've got is, if it's not illegal, it's legal."?

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[SC Official]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I would allow one (the former) but I wouldn't allow the other (the later). The question on the floor is what rulebook, casebook, or annual interpretation, citation can we use to support our opinion?

None, at least for the former which you and I would allow. At least, I would allow it until the game got delayed to wipe up water (can't give an official DOG warning if it's not after a TO).

Ironically, Nevadaref normally is 100% by the book with no room for interpretation, and now on this issue he's the one making s*it up that doesn't have any rules support.