Tying Shoe Leads To Heave Ho...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

All I would say, it was probably the words he said got him ejected ... maybe what AD said was just not tolerable.

Even without knowing what was said, I'm sure that we can probably all agree upon that. Davis certainly wasn't ejected for simply tying his shoe (as some online sensational eye-catching headlines seem to imply).

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I'm 100% certain that Anthony Davis said something awful enough to deserve a technical foul (his second technical foul leading to his ejection) ...

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I would not stop the game for just a shoe coming off, but would delay starting the game when a player is not ready.

Agree, except in the case where a loose shoe on the floor of a high school game may present a safety concern for the players, not necessarily just for the player with one shoe.



Just curious as to why the NFHS specifically broaches eyeglasses and lenses, but doesn't specifically broach untied (or missing) shoes.

Of course, shoes won't break if a player steps on them.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

... doesn't specifically brooch untied (or missing) shoes.

Untied shoes happen all the time in my middle school games.

If we've already had a couple, and we're waiting for a shoe (once again) to be tied before a free throw, I will often tell everybody, "If anybody wants shoe tying lessons after the game, my partner, as a child, came in second place in the Connecticut State Shoe Tying Contest, and he'll be glad to hang around to give lessons".

Sometimes I'll follow up with my partner, "Was that second place, or third place?".

Saying second place makes it seem more believable than first place, and I often get middle school players saying, "Really?".

Lying to kids for a good reason isn't always bad? Right? Santa Claus?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Lying to kids for a good reason isn't always bad? Right? Santa Claus?

As a five year old child, had an adult next door neighbor take us to a beach "known to have pirate treasure". All the neighbor kids found "Silver" coins along the water's edge on the sand. Of course, we didn't know the difference between "planted" quarters and real pirate silver coins.

Note: Stony Creek, where we visited the beach, and the Thimble Islands, on Long Island Sound in Connecticut, were actually visited by Captain William Kidd’s ship, the Adventure Galley, in the 1690s, so he wasn't really lying.

Same neighbor took neighborhood kids for a long walk in the woods to visit a "Haunted House", and we spotted "Bear Poop" on the trail. How were we supposed to know that it was a horse trail, the house was just an ordinary dilapidated abandoned house, and that back then there were few, if any, bears in that part of suburban Connecticut (if any bears at all in the entire state back then)?