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Originally Posted by BillyMac
And do more than just a few of you (not me, and rookies don't count) devote any more than a just few minutes of annual study to the various jump ball restrictions since we only see one (usually) of these every game? How many of us (including me) just sit back, as the umpire, and hope that nothing "weird" happens, or if something "weird" happens, it something very obvious, like a jumper tapping the ball on the way up?
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We don't obsess over the jump ball provisions. I know the rules quite well, but I'll admit that I'm in no hurry to blow back a marginal toss or even a marginal "got it on the way up" violation. Especially in regulation. The other team is going to get 2-of-the-next-3 after all. I don't say anything on a jump - I ask the captains if they're ready, hit my whistle, and toss the ball.
It used to aggravate me as a guard (back in the day) when I'd get in there and tie up a much taller player and be rewarded by having to jump against him. I had no chance. Why is *that* system fair?
(I liked the thinking when NCAAM (I think) experimented with giving the ball to the defense on every tie up, but then actual game play exposed worse issues in that system and they abandoned it.)
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 02:05pm
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