I stretch out moderately during this time....not laying on the floor or anything but a little jogging and leg stretches. I've injured my legs before and a stretch out 15-20 minutes before running hard is not good...too far apart in time. It IS an atheletic event, not a board meeting.

I'm reading Rule 4-Definitions from the NBA Rulebook and it says visiting team has the choice. :confused:

Section I—Basket/Backboard
a. A team’s basket consists of the basket ring and net through which its players try to shoot the ball. The visiting team has the choice of baskets for the first half. The basket selected by the visiting team when it first enters onto the court shall be its basket for the first half.

But home chooses the benches. Therefore, some games the teams will go towards their benches the first half, and some games they'll go away.

Who cares if teams/coaches see you "warming up?" It's stupid to be concerned of such a thing. If you want to warm up 2-3 minutes before tip-off, then do it. Our health is important and if I could use a stretch/run for 60 seconds, then I do it.

Edit: reminds me of when I went to camp and I was told if I need to reset the clock, to always put up an odd number of seconds. Complete pile of cow patties. I put up what I know.

Makes sense now :o

I had a college game earlier in the season with a guy who works a ton of D1 and was injured last year. He told me he has basically decided he isn't going to run hard until he is warmed up good.

For me, warming up by running is just as if not more important than stretching. I will not stretch before I run so I'm looking for a hallway or somewhere to run. I'm not against an official stretching or running on the sideline because it is an athletic even. I don't normally do it because I'm almost sweating by the time I warm up good.

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the issue is mainly with NFHS they say not to warm up stand like a statue. but you can take some time to get lose prior to that and it will not be quite as bad.

with NCAA it is a little different with Men's someone has to be on the floor from I think it's the 15 minute mark as long as the teams are out there, so a couple of you can go back in an stretch a little and come back out, if you are nice you let the rookie get a couple of minutes to warm up also.

However in both Mens and Women you are required to be there 90 minutes before the game so some of that time can be spent stretching and getting warm so that you only need a few minutes to revive that before the game starts.

With the women, coming out at 15 and oing your admin stuff and then going back in gives you a couple of minutes to get some last minute stretching and warm up in before the toss goes up.

If you get good and lose before you go out the 10 minutes of little to know movement should not cause you too much of a problem if you are really stretched out.

He'll be here all week. And the week after. And...

For me thats just not true. I know how to warm up and stretch. The standing around does impact me in a not so good way. I stretch, jump rope, use elastic bands. Then I go stand around while the players are warming up.

Like I said earlier I'm thinking of doing the run along the sidelines thing before tip off, no matter what NFHS says.