Whistle from the stands

[Juulie Downs]

This very situation, except for the end-of-game aspect, was all over the news a week or so ago. Can't remember if it was college or NBA, but there was a whistle from the stands, everyone stopped playing except one guy, guy with ball passed down court to that one player for an easy layup. Refs counted the basket, but also sent some sort of security or game management into the stands to quell any further such activity.

In the sitch I saw, everyone stopped playing and the refs were even all looking at each other to see who stopped the play. Clock stopped, everyone stopped, except one guy realized it was bogus and yelled at his teammate who was holding the ball, ran downcourt, received the pass and layed it in.

In hs ball, if I heard the whistle, all or most players stopped, I'd stop the game immediately, with a whistle of my own, and not give a chance for that lay in to get put up. Give the ball back to whoever had it when the whistle went.

And get game management involved bigtime.

[mutantducky]

it happened in the jazz-warriors game a while back, i posted it along with the video of Williams getting fouled and then shooting the and 1 even though he wasn't the one who shot the basket. In that case I thought the refs should have stopped play because there was an obvious stoppage of play by the players on the court. They didn't and the jazz went down the length of the court and scored.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Juulie Downs

This very situation, except for the end-of-game aspect, was all over the news a week or so ago. Can't remember if it was college or NBA, but there was a whistle from the stands, everyone stopped playing except one guy, guy with ball passed down court to that one player for an easy layup. Refs counted the basket, but also sent some sort of security or game management into the stands to quell any further such activity.

In the sitch I saw, everyone stopped playing and the refs were even all looking at each other to see who stopped the play. Clock stopped, everyone stopped, except one guy realized it was bogus and yelled at his teammate who was holding the ball, ran downcourt, received the pass and layed it in.

In hs ball, if I heard the whistle, all or most players stopped, I'd stop the game immediately, with a whistle of my own, and not give a chance for that lay in to get put up. Give the ball back to whoever had it when the whistle went.

And get game management involved bigtime.

Juulie....it was NBE game, can't recall teams. Saw replay and sure looke odd.

[Engine1411]

1st of all Why wasn't Team B trying to foul? I would expect being down in the 4th qtr with only 10 sec left that they would be trying to foul. Now to answer your question, I would blow play dead at the point when I heard the whistle (and reset the clock to the time that I heard the whistle). You would then give Team A the ball for a throw in at the POI, and resume play, expecting Team B to foul. Common Sense shold be used here!

[26 Year Gap]

Had this happen in a state championship soccer game I played in in HS. Whistle sounded. Everyone stopped. Some kid on the other team went to the ball & kicked it from our goalie's hands and went in and scored. Our protests to the officials were to no avail.

I hope this creep in the stands received at least a season's banishment from attendance at ANY HS sporting events at ANY venue.