6 on the floor!!!

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I'm not against preventive officiating. I am against officials making up their own rules.

Methinks you've yet to learn the difference.

If you can prevent a team from having six players on the court, fine. The bottom line, though, is that it's still the coach's job to get the right number of players out there. Don't blame the officials for a coach that hasn't done his job. And if they do somehow have 6 out there, you just call the "T". If you don't, you're screwing the other team....you know, the team that knows what they're doing.

Exactly. While I am very careful in not putting the ball in play with 6 on the floor, once it happens, it's a T. Period. And the coaches never blame the officials, either -- only the officials blame other officials in this situation.

I will say I've blown it dead after a parter has handed the ball to a player since, well, I had my hand up and my partner chose to ignore me. I wasn't ready, therefore, my partner CAN'T make it live. My hand was up. Tweet.