Partner told me this today

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Why common sense? Rules knowledge would have been sufficient.

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Common sense has nothing to do with it. Simply properly understanding and enforcing the rule as written would have handled the matter perfectly.

Consider a person who is very familiar with sports in general but doesn't know anything about basketball. Knowing what each team is trying to do at that point, would they think such a call made sense or not. I think they would and they'd agree that it didn't make any sense. Thus, common sense is adequate to get the right result in this case....explicit knowledge of the rule shouldn't have even been necessary.