Was reading my rule book tonight....

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by mbyron

No, of course I don't report all technical fouls. But rather than distinguish some T's as reportable and others as not, I distinguish instead how the rule was violated.

In this area, using video at halftime is extremely rare, and doing so would be a flagrant violation of the rule. Although the T is not a flagrant T, given the circumstances it merits the same kind of report a flagrant T would receive.

It's up to the state how to handle the report, and if they deem the violation non-flagrant they're free to ignore it.

Here's why I make this comparison. If a team were to remove the scorebook at halftime and take it to the lockerroom, most officials would say, "Oh, that's ok, they didn't know they couldn't." Now when a coach uses a video clip from the first half in the lockerroom, why wouldn't an officials say the same thing? What if the coach truly didn't know that he couldn't do that?

I don't see why people think that one is isn't a big deal and that the other is egregious.

For those who say that they are doing no more than enforce the proper penalty, I can't agree because not only are they enforcing the book penalty on the court, but they are also adding something else to it by generating a report to the state, unless the state specifically requires one for all Ts.

That's just my opinion and clearly not everyone agrees. Each person must do as they believe is best, but I'm not going to be writing a report on every unusual rule infraction that I handle in a game.

PS Would anyone write a report to the state office because there was a T for goaltending during a FT?