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Old Mon Dec 28, 2009, 02:51pm
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Here's a few questions my local kids rec league has on a test for first year officials (usually HS kids). NF rules.

1) A1 is standing inbounds in front count and makes a shot into the correct basket. No fouls or violations occurred, yet the basket does not count. Why?

A's coach called timeout before shot

2) During play, A1 punches B1 in the face, yet none of the officials calls a foul. Why?

Referee did not see it, can't call what you don't see

3) Team A has three all of their timeouts remaining. During a dead ball, A1 requests a timeout but the official does not grant it. Why?

Team B is up by 25 points with 5 seconds left and A took a beating all game. Referee wants game to end already!
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EDIT: I'm not being serious for 1 and 3. This was just a joke.

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My comments to that -

1) Coaches can't call timeouts
2) Duh
3) If any referee of ours disregarded the rules like you seem to promote doing, he or she would be fired

represent that
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Old Mon Dec 28, 2009, 02:58pm
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albeit a joke, I did deserve that... haha
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Old Mon Dec 28, 2009, 02:58pm
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My comments to that -

1) Coaches can't call timeouts
2) Duh
3) If any referee of ours disregarded the rules like you seem to promote doing, he or she would be fired

represent that
it was a joke. And coaches can't call timeouts? Since when? Is that a league thing?
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Old Mon Dec 28, 2009, 03:06pm
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it was a joke. And coaches can't call timeouts? Since when? Is that a league thing?
Coaches "request" timeouts. Officials "call" timeouts if the request is made at an appropriate time.

It's a semantic issue that seems to draw fire everytime someone gets it "wrong" in here.

The funny thing is, the case book makes the same semantic "error," if I remember correctly.
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Old Mon Dec 28, 2009, 07:57pm
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Call A Timeout ???

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Coaches "request" timeouts. Officials "call" timeouts if the request is made at an appropriate time. It's a semantic issue that seems to draw fire everytime someone gets it "wrong" in here.
That's how we tell the difference between us and, "Them". Now you've given it away. Please delete your post, or we'll do the same thing to you that we did to Old School. You don't see him posting anymore on this Forum? Do you? Enough said.

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The funny thing is, the case book makes the same semantic "error," if I remember correctly.
You remember correctly:
*3.2.2 SITUATION F: ... time-out is called.
3.3.1 SITUATION D: ... time-out is called.
3.3.6 SITUATION A: ... call a time-out.
3.3.6 SITUATION B: ... call a time-out.
3.3.7 SITUATION B: ...call a time-out.
3.3.7 SITUATION C: ... call a time-out.
4.34.1 SITUATION: ... calls a time-out.
4.44.3 SITUATION C: ... call a time-out.
4.44.5 SITUATION B: ... call a time-out.
4.44.5 SITUATION D: ... call a time-out.
6.1.2 SITUATION B: ... calls for a time-out.
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Old Tue Dec 29, 2009, 02:29am
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Coaches "request" timeouts. Officials "call" timeouts if the request is made at an appropriate time.

It's a semantic issue that seems to draw fire everytime someone gets it "wrong" in here.

The funny thing is, the case book makes the same semantic "error," if I remember correctly.
Officials call timeouts? Can you find one spot in either the rule or case book where it says anything about officials calling timeouts?

Anyone who thinks that this is an error needs to actually read the rule book and see that the what the official does when there is a timeout request is called granting a timeout. Apparently some people have imagined the word calling replacing granting and therefore consider it incorrect to say that a player called timeout when in actuality they were the one who didn't know the proper term.
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Look, by rule, coaches and players can only request a timeout. The only people who can actually "call" anything have whistles; that's where the semantics come from.

Like I alluded to before, though, it's not a big deal except to some.
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Look, by rule, coaches and players can only request a timeout. The only people who can actually "call" anything have whistles; that's where the semantics come from.

Like I alluded to before, though, it's not a big deal except to some.
We can put it in the "pet peeve" thread....if it's not already there.

These cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine.......
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EDIT: I'm not being serious for 1 and 3. This was just a joke.
I like jokes here as much as (and probably more than) anyone, so if they were jokes, I accept that. Next time, use a smiley face or something similar, or else make it really obvious that it was a joke.

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