Bad toss and rejump - the clock.

Rich · #29 (**permalink**) Wed Nov 26, 2003, 11:13am

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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee

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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
In response to Jurassic's use of bold print:

I'm going to give the most politically incorrect answer possible. I simply don't care whether there is a black-and-white justification for me to do so. I'm putting the time back on the clock and we're starting with 8:00 on the clock.

Yup,and you would still be wrong, by rule.

And nobody in the free world would care, either, that you were wrong.I'd do the same thing, Rich.

This was just a nice little philosophical, what-if rules discussion. Not that much relationship to the real world.

Oh, I misinterpreted then. Sorry. I've been a baseball umpire as long as I've been a basketball official (late 80s) and I'm used to rule sets that simply don't cover everything that happens in a game. Baseball's 9.01(c) is famous because it is the catch-all that covers that and I'm sure basketball has something similar, but I simply don't remember rule numbers the same way I do in baseball.

BTW, I used the smitty last night. Brought both the New Balance and my last pair of Run 'n Refs to the game in case the NB shoes hurt my feet and I needed to change out a halftime. Fat chance. The difference between the RnR shoes I bought in 1996 (I bought six pairs and broke this pair out last season) and the NB 609 shoes is like the difference between a Yugo and a BMW. It felt like I was wearing slippers (with support) out there. The RnR's are now officially retired.

Rich