"Try it and you'll find out"

mick · #1 (**permalink**) Wed Jul 25, 2001, 04:42pm

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Originally posted by BktBallRef

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Originally posted by 112448

As far as answering a player's question, "giving a player an advantage." Would you not tell a player he/she can run the baseline after returning from a timeout?

Yes, I would. But that's just preventive officiating. It's also apples to oranges. There are situations when he can and when he can't run the baseline. That's also the type of thing that the crew communciates to each other to avoid a possible error. I'll tell him he can run the baseline or that it's a spot throw but I'm not going to tell him "And you can throw it into to a teammate out of bopunds if you want to." That's what coaches are for.

As luck would have it, I had an inbound play directly in front of the team's bench today. The coach looked at me and asked, you guessed it, "Can he throw it into the backcourt?" I just raised an eyebrow at him and he said, "My bad. Of course he can."

Tony,
The raised eyebrow. YES!
May I use that?
mick