First half, I call a travel from T

As I jog downcourt coach is standing up and we have this exchange

"Travel?? Dan, c'mon...!"

"What? You didn't like that call? I thought it was a good call..."

"Yeah it was a great call...but I didn't like it!"

Rookie, I Hope ...
 

I believe that his was posted by a coach to show that officials say stupid things also. In this case, it looks like the official confused the release of the try, and end of team control, with the failure of the ball to hit the rim, as in a 30 second violation. In the, hopefully, rookie official's mind, since the shot didn't hit the rim, then he continued to count three seconds, as the 30 second clock kept ticking. I hope that this happened in an NCAA game, or a high school game that uses NCAA rules, or a hybrid version of NFHS rules with a shot clock, or this, hopefully, rookie official really has problems.

This is obviously another difference with FIBA - the 3 second count restarts when a shot is attempted. The referee makes a judgement on whether a throw is an attempt or not, it doesn't matter if it hits the ring (although it must hit the ring to restart the shot clock).

Woops....should have read the other posts first........

Yeah - I think that you are right... Unfortunately we have officials that don't know the rules! Doesn't really help our case!

Two from last week:

Coach (30-year veteran): That was traveling!!

Me: Coach, he was fumbling the ball.

Coach: Well, a fumble is still a travel!!

And my favorite from this year:

"If the defender is in the air, it HAS to be a foul on the defense!"

Just to add clarification. The 3 second count stops on the try. It does not restart again until the rebound is secured, assuming it's secured by the offense.

Yes, that was my point that officials say some funny things, too. It was the middle school championship game (NFHS rules). That three second call was crucial, too. In the last minute of a game we lost by 2. Championship game and we get assigned a ref that doesn't know the rules. His partner earlier in the game, gave the over the back "mechanic". I knew we were in for an interesting game.

She should be benched for such disregard of the English language.

Yeah, some people's kids....

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I heard this from a partner this year.
His daughter was home on break from college where she plays and is the captain of her team. This is what she asked her dad:
"Why is it that the longer the captain's meeting is, the worse the officiating?"
I thought this was hilarious and has quite a bit of validity.

EXCELLENT!!!

Ref screwed that one up.

Middle school boys game this year.....Team A is shooting ft's. Team A subs after first ft. The entering sub, A6 enters the game, lines up for the ft, then has an "oh s@#t!" moment, realizing he didn't communicate with the kid he went in for as to who he's now supposed to be guarding when his team is on defense.

He's quickly trying to yell back to his bench "who do I have? who do I have?" At this point, FT shooter A1 is getting annoyed with his teammate yelling (maybe is screwing up A1's ft concentration...whatever..).

A1 then yells to his teammate 3 feet away "it doesn't matter who you have!! just guard the guy who ends up in front of you!!"

Players, coaches, fans, and even my partner and I couldn't help but chuckle at that one! :D

Almost as funny as one of my all time favorites. Kid subbing in asks the kid going out who he was guarding. Kid replies, "Well, we're playing zone, so I guess - everybody."

Not sure what would be funnier in that instance of the team playing zone....your kid replying "everybody" or a kid replying "nobody"!