Pre-game warm-ups question - Full Court Warm-Up

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Jeff, you're exaggerating. The situation we're talking about here is one particular thing, and has nothing to do with a player shaking hands with the coach during introductions. There's nothing anywhere in the rule book about that situation.

The rule is to prevent teams from crossing the division line before the game. I can think of a couple of situations where I would never get all worked up because that took place (e.g.: ball getting away, team running to the locker room)

Originally Posted by rainmaker

I'm just saying that for Jeffpea to say "use common sense" isn't a very helpful comment. My common sense tells me that I couldn't care less about shirts tucked in. But it's a rule I strictly enforce, because my assignor tells me to, and that's how it's done in my area. I don't like it, but it's in the book and it's important to my schedule. Common sense just doesn't come into it, at all. It may be that some folks can afford to be a little flexible about certain rules in their area. Fine. But those folks can't just shake off my legalistic concerns by saying "use common sense." It's just not useful.

Maybe the comment is not helpful to you, but I think his comments were right on. Either you can decide to penalize every infraction no matter how technical it is. Or you can use a little bit of common sense and realize that the rules were not created to prevent what we were talking about. Remember there is not a team on the floor. Why would you make an issue out of this when one team is not at all around? This is a great way to get on everyone's good side before the game. Now you will be expected to enforce every other minor infraction that a coach can think they see. Do you call a dunk before the game that fits the literal definition or do you quietly tell the player to knock it off? There is a lot of flexibility with this rule and no one has shown where it was against the rules for a team to practice on both ends with no team available.

Peace