8/10 panel ball

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Lock it!!! Lock this one now!!! Before it's too late!!!!

C'mon, not yet.

I got a hankerin' for some popcorn.

(And when was the last time I ever used the word "hankerin'"? )

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

(And when was the last time I ever used the word "hankerin'"? )

Don't ya remember?

When you went to Cleveland, we asked you "why".......and you said "because I've got a hanker for a canker".

You always did have poetic tendencies(which kinda explains the ballet shoes).

Please note that, yes, that was one of those "off-the-cuff responses" that you've heard so much about.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

You always did have poetic tendencies(which kinda explains the ballet shoes).

Huh, how 'bout that:

I'm a poet.

And I don't know it.

But my feet show it.

They're Longfellows.

Anyway, my cuff's always dirty from food stains, so I don't understand off-the-cuff remarks. But I do remember some mention about a 10-panel ball as well. Has anyone ever had to "throw out" a ball because it wasn't considered legal? I mean, other than the using the wrong size ball (girl's ball in a boy's game, etc.), I don't know if I've ever seen an "illegal" ball.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

I'm a poet.

And I don't know it.

But my feet show it.

They're Longfellows.

And they smell like Dickens....

I'm a poet too.....

A yellow bird with a yellow bill
Sat upon my window sill
I lured her in with a crust of bread
And gently crushed her f***ing head.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And they smell like Dickens....

It's those damn ballet shoes - no ventilation.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I'm a poet too.....

A yellow bird with a yellow bill
Sat upon my window sill
I lured her in with a crust of bread
And gently crushed her f***ing head.

Has anyone mentioned recently that you're going straight to he!!?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Has anyone mentioned recently that you're going straight to he!!?

Yup....Rainmaker.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Yup....Rainmaker.

Not me!! I said you were a "grunting flea-picking neanderthal". That is a reference to past time, not future. I wouldn't even care to guess where you'll spend your eternity.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And they smell like Dickens....

I'm a poet too.....

You are two poets
Who shouldn't show it

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Has anyone ever had to "throw out" a ball because it wasn't considered legal?

Yes, last season I rejected the ball that FIBA is using in the current WC tournament. It doesn't meet the color requirement of 1-12-1a.

[JRutledge]

Nevada,

Pull the stick out of your ***. In all the rulebooks I have, there is no reference of how many panels on the ball (the oldest I can find it 2002-03).If that was changed, it was not an announced change. The 2002-2003 does not say anything in the rulebook that says the amount of panels on a basketball. I will look in a NF Pre-Season Guide when I get around to it, but I do not remember this ever being a change. There might have been a change, but honestly I would not care about this change. If the ball had 6 panels (even thought I have never seen a ball with that many panels) you still played the game. The amount of panels on the ball is about as important as how long the net has to be. If there was a rules change, great.

The only place I have seen a 10 panel ball used was at the college level. Also when I have seen a ball without the NF mark, we still play the game.

Peace

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Nevada,

Pull the stick out of your ***. In all the rulebooks I have, there is no reference of how many panels on the ball (the oldest I can find it 2002-03).If that was changed, it was not an announced change. The 2002-2003 does not say anything in the rulebook that says the amount of panels on a basketball. I will look in a NF Pre-Season Guide when I get around to it, but I do not remember this ever being a change. There might have been a change, but honestly I would not care about this change. If the ball had 6 panels (even thought I have never seen a ball with that many panels) you still played the game. The amount of panels on the ball is about as important as how long the net has to be. If there was a rules change, great.

The only place I have seen a 10 panel ball used was at the college level. Also when I have seen a ball without the NF mark, we still play the game.

Peace

I'll save you the trouble of looking. Just go back to your 2002-03 rule book, open it to p.13 and look at rule 1-12-1(c). That rule says "it shall have a deeply pebbled cover with the traditionally shaped eight panels bonded tightly to the rubber carcass". Then look on p.74 of the 2003-04 rulebook under COMMENTS ON THE 2003-04 RULES REVISIONS. The first comment says This change deletes the previously required eight panels on a legal basketball. The new description of a legal basketball has been changed to "a deeply-pebbled cover with horizontally shaped panels bonded tightly to the rubber carcass".

It's true, it's true....

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I'll save you the trouble of looking. Just go back to your 2002-03 rule book, open it to p.13 and look at rule 1-12-1(c). That rule says "it shall have a deeply pebbled cover with the traditionally shaped eight panels bonded tightly to the rubber carcass". Then look on p.74 of the 2003-04 rulebook under COMMENTS ON THE 2003-04 RULES REVISIONS. The first comment says This change deletes the previously required eight panels on a legal basketball. The new description of a legal basketball has been changed to "a deeply-pebbled cover with horizontally shaped panels bonded tightly to the rubber carcass".

It's true, it's true....

I completely believe you. I would hope that someone has a lot more to worry about then what the specifics are on the basketball. If the rule does not care how many panels you have on the ball, then why worry about it (unless you are trying to win a bet or something like that). And for the record, you are not going to find any evidence in rulebooks since then that this requirement of panels ever existed.

Peace

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I completely believe you. I would hope that someone has a lot more to worry about then what the specifics are on the basketball. If the rule does not care how many panels you have on the ball, then why worry about it (unless you are trying to win a bet or something like that). And for the record, you are not going to find any evidence in rulebooks since then that this requirement of panels ever existed.

Peace

Well, personally, if someone asks me about a legal ball, I tell 'em to look for a "29.5" and an "NFHS" on it. And if there ain't one around like that, which I have run into, then find one that's round, bounces and that both coaches agree is OK.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Well, personally, if someone asks me about a legal ball, I tell 'em to look for a "29.5" and an "NFHS" on it. And if there ain't one around like that, which I have run into, then find one that's round, bounces and that both coaches agree is OK.

I would say most of the time we use basketball that have neither of those marks on them. Guess what? We still play.

Peace