Fun With An Illegal Dribble ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Like the "handshake" analogy ...

I've heard this before. Like it.

Been around basketball for almost fifty-five years. Thought I heard it all. Wrong.

Yesterday. Kid throws up a crazy three pointer that ricochets really hard off the backboard and rockets through the basket. As I'm signaling the successful three, going from tableside old trail to new lead, I pass the coach who says to me, "It's before five o'clock. The bank's open".

How have I come this far without ever hearing that?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Yesterday.

I'm tableside trail, I hear "Time out. Time out." from an adult male voice directly behind me, where the head coach normally stands. No adult male assistant. No parent spectators tableside. Nothing important going on on the court.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I grant the timeout. Big mistake.

It's not the head coach. It's his adult male scorekeeper (table not centered on the court, it's closer to home bench) advising the head coach that he should call a "time out".

Lazy. I know better. Live and learn. Picked a good time to screw up, it wasn't a very close game. Won't ever happen again to me. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, double shame on me.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I've heard this before. Like it.

Been around basketball for almost fifty-five years. Thought I heard it all. Wrong.

Yesterday. Kid throws up a crazy three pointer that ricochets really hard off the backboard and rockets through the basket. As I'm signaling the successful three, going from tableside old trail to new lead, I pass the coach who says to me, "It's before five o'clock. The bank's open".

How have I come this far without ever hearing that?

This was used by the NF as an interpretation. Surprised you never heard about it. Palming was a POE this year and it was used in the Simplified and Illustrated book this year on page 17. So not a new term or one I made up. It has also been used in powerpoints from the NF for years when it was a POE several years ago.

Peace