Only in Middle School

[zebraman]

Originally posted by ChuckElias

Unless the coach happens to know Hoyle. The coach is gonna be pissed b/c you took the ball away from his team. He may look it up or ask around. If he finds out you did it wrong, that could be a problem for you.

You can never get in trouble by applying the rules correctly. JMO.

Common sense worked fine. There were no problems. There would have been a complete hornet's nest if we would have allowed red to go score a layup on the confused white team because the official's gave the ball to the wrong team after correctly awarding it to white. Common sense officiating often trumps Hoyle. Black and white officials often have lots of problems in game administration. I have a hard time believing that you would have just let red score. Besides, it you want to get "rulesy" about it, you can re-read my post and see that I recognized the mistake before the ball was inbounded (so before the throw-in was completed) and I just had a delayed whistle.

Z



[Edited by zebraman on Sep 27th, 2005 at 11:27 AM]