Technical for excessive timeouts?

[rainmaker]

JV or Varsity game, you say, "Coach, you asked for it, you got it. And by the way, you have to pay (meaning a T) on the way back onto the floor."

Lower level, this early in the season, you quickly decide whether or not to assess. Then whichever you choose, you do with a confident and cheerful demeanor, telling the other coach you'd do the same for him.

By the book, yea, it's a T. It's also not a correctable error (Study 2.10). But with young coaches, young table people, inexperienced refs, you can get away with an oops! sorry if you do quickly and certainly. Don't waffle, or hesitate, and just go for it.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

JV or Varsity game, you say, "Coach, you asked for it, you got it. And by the way, you have to pay (meaning a T) on the way back onto the floor."

Lower level, this early in the season, you quickly decide whether or not to assess. Then whichever you choose, you do with a confident and cheerful demeanor, telling the other coach you'd do the same for him.

We recently had a long tedius discussion about officials with full college schedules taking a small number of HS games to qualify for playoffs.

Would you agree that for these people HS varsity is "lower level"? What advice do you give them about how to handle "lower level" games?

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

We recently had a long tedius discussion about officials with full college schedules taking a small number of HS games to qualify for playoffs.

Would you agree that for these people HS varsity is "lower level"? What advice do you give them about how to handle "lower level" games?

When I said lower level, I meant lower than JV and Varsity, which is what I had just been talking about in the previous sentence.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

When I said lower level, I meant lower than JV and Varsity, which is what I had just been talking about in the previous sentence.

Mabye I'm being too subtle for you.

Isn't your line of "upper level" and "lower level" rather arbitrary?

[lukealex]

Game last night, team A is out of timeouts. A1 asks for and is granted a TO. What is the correct procedure for assessing the T?

[Jurassic Referee]

Luke, grant the time-out to Team A. Charge them with a team technical foul. At the conclusion of the TO, administer the 2 FT's and subsequent throw-in for the "T".

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Mabye I'm being too subtle for you.

Isn't your line of "upper level" and "lower level" rather arbitrary?

Yea, I suppose so. What's your point?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Yea, I suppose so. What's your point?

Is this a trick question?

My point is you arbitrarily decide between "upper level" and "lower level" games and alter the rules to match your percieved expectations at each level.

That's all. No big deal.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Is this a trick question?

My point is you arbitrarily decide between "upper level" and "lower level" games and alter the rules to match your percieved expectations at each level.

That's all. No big deal.

Okay, I see. Yea, it's not just my perceived expectations, though. In general, around here, we aren't supposed to be as strictly literal with the rules at the "lower levels". If I've got a 7th grade game, with 7th grade scorekeepers and a 22-year-old coach in his first year, and I make them take a T as in the OP, I'd get a call from my assignor if he heard about it. "Cmon, you can afford to be a little flexible in this situation." If it happened even at the freshman level, I might be okay to do this if I handled it correctly. At JV or Varsity the phonecall would go the other way. "You should have given the T."

Frankly, Dan, it's been the hardest thing for me to learn, when to be flexible and when to be rigid (we're talking basketball here, you gutter-snipes out there!!).