2-man To question...

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Splute

No, not for implied favoritism, for knowledge of where I am in the game. How many t.o.'s each coach has remaining. Are we approaching a possible extra time out call? If a player is in foul trouble it keeps me aware that we may soon have an interupter to replace a player and I would like to expedite the process and manage the remaining players. In my mind it keeps me focused on the game. Based on your question, do you feel this information is not necessary? Am I considering things that are wasting my time?

Most of what you are looking for is on the scoreboard, including the player and # of fouls that player has. Team fouls are always up, some clocks show timeouts left (TOL). If the team fouls are not up on the clock, I would go to the table to check for this periodically, and this only. The rest I don't care about. I don't care about timeouts until the last minute of the game and the only thing I care then is if they got a timeout left. How many they have, I don't need to know that information. Some officials will tell you this team has 3 and this team has 2. I'm like so what! The only thing I need to know is when they don't have any left, then we need to alert them. Other than that, it's wasted energy, imho....

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Old School

I don't care about timeouts until the last minute of the game and the only thing I care then is if they got a timeout left.

It *can* be good game management to know whether a team has only one type of TO left (either 30-second or full). Then, you can give the correct signal as soon as the TO is granted and don't ask the coach which type he wants when there's only one possible answer.

Originally Posted by Old School

(this is taught at the NBA level)

While some of what you say applies at all levels, the "protect the star" should not apply below the NBA level -- and that's 99.9% of what's discussed here.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It *can* be good game management to know whether a team has only one type of TO left (either 30-second or full). Then, you can give the correct signal as soon as the TO is granted and don't ask the coach which type he wants when there's only one possible answer.

True

While some of what you say applies at all levels, the "protect the star" should not apply below the NBA level -- and that's 99.9% of what's discussed here.

If you think my message was about protecting the star athlete, then you missed my point.

[lukealex]

Originally Posted by Old School

True

If you think my message was about protecting the star athlete, then you missed my point.

You just spent an entire post talking about Lebron James in high school. How can you say your post isn't about protecting the star?

[Jay R]

Originally Posted by Old School

Most of what you are looking for is on the scoreboard, including the player and # of fouls that player has. Team fouls are always up, some clocks show timeouts left (TOL).

That's fine for you OS since you're usually working the big gyms (Rupp Arena, Dean Smith Center, Freedom Hall etc...). For the rest of us, a good gym is where over half of the lights in the scoreclock are working.