Closely Guarded

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by rainmaker

BZ -- the question isn't one of authority, it's of interpretation. How does the NF want us to handle these murky situations? College or NBA refs won't help us here. They don't have the authority of the NFHS rules committee. You may be right about how it needs to be handled. Dan may also be right, or the answer may be some compromise between the two positions. The answer is completely unavailable, because it doesn't depend on your logic, my logic or anyone else's logic. It depends on the Rules Committee and what they decide. In the meantime, we have to each do the best we can with how it is called in our associations, or our local high school leagues. That's not something Nunez can help me with -- he doesn't do any high school games around here.

While I agree 100% with you on this I'll take issue with this part:

You may be right about how it needs to be handled. Dan may also be right, or the answer may be some compromise between the two positions.

Dan has not given his position on how this should be handled, except I did slip & say I do not end my 5 counts while the dribbler has his back to the defender and is moving away from him - not an all inclusive statement just an answer to Chuck's specific question. All I keep saying is while there are acceptable ways of handling the closely guarded counts the rules are not written clearly enough, period. And I don't care what Zamir Kennedy thinks or how many names fall out of his pockets while he's telling us.