Exam Question Thoughts

[LRZ]

I think the distinction between B and D is this: if the violation is egregious enough, you have to recognize and penalize it with a technical, even though it gives the offending team what it wants--a stopped clock. I guess NFHS felt that awarding two FTs and the ball outweighed the stopped clock benefit.

This is one of those NFHS hair-splittings that don't make sense to me: how "unsporting" (or, to paraphrase Valley Man, how more "obvious tapping the ball away") does conduct have to be to stop the clock and penalize? Where is the line between conduct that must be penalized, with the clock stopping, and conduct that must be ignored?

In any event, if I have to penalize, I'm likely to employ SC Official's slow whistle and, if the timer is also slow in stopping the clock, I'm not putting time back on the clock.