Unusual Strategy Involving the 10 Second Count

[MajorCord]

Championship girls game (rec. ball) this morning. Team A is really strong, outscoring everybody all season long. Team B coach is tired of his team being humiliated. He feels that Team A runs the score up on everybody. He comes up with a strategy before the game. This league uses a running clock except for fouls. If he feels that the score is being run up, after a made basket by Team A he wants his girl to inbound the ball, let it roll to a stop in the back court before his player touches it. As I understand it, by rule the 10 second count doesn't start until his player touches it inbounds. Team A can not press in the back court until last two minutes of the game (league rule). He wants to let the ball stay there while the clock runs.

How would you guys have handled this? I will tell you later what my partner and I did.

[Overnbach]

Five seconds to inbound the ball. We have a turnover.

[MajorCord]

The rule says that they have 5 seconds to release the ball on the inbound throw.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Overnbach

Five seconds to inbound the ball. We have a turnover.

Nope. The 5 second count ends when the throw-in is released.

Warn him. If they refuse to play, issue the technical foul.

10-1-5
A team shall not:
Allow the game to develop into an actionless contest


If he continues this pattern, declare the game a forfeit.

5-1-4
The referee shall forfeit the game if a team refuses to play after being instructed to do so by any official. The referee may also forfeit a game if any player, team member, bench personnel or coach fails to comply with any technical-foul penalty, or repeatedly commits technical-foul infractions or other acts which make a travesty of the game. If the team to which the game is forfeited is ahead, the score at the time of forfeiture shall stand. If this team is not ahead, the score shall be recorded as 2-0 in its favor.

[MJT]

I agree with you BsktBallRef. This is quite different than a team running a delay. Although it is drastically slowed down, it is definitely not an actionless contest, as the OP is.

[mplagrow]

Step one. Warn the coach that he's making a travesty of the game and causing a stop in action.

Step two. Call the T if play didn't pick up after step one.

Step three. Forfeit if step two didn't result in picking up the pace.

I doubt you need to go past step one. BTW, since this was the championship game, was the first place team really that much better than the second place team?

[WhistlesAndStripes]

OK, The suspense is just killing me. What'd you do?

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by mplagrow

Step one. Warn the coach that he's making a travesty of the game and causing a stop in action.

Step two. Call the T if play didn't pick up after step one.

Step three. Forfeit if step two didn't result in picking up the pace.

I doubt you need to go past step one. BTW, since this was the championship game, was the first place team really that much better than the second place team?

Copycat.