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Old Tue May 31, 2011, 03:27am
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Let's say a player insists the other team should have the throw-in. If you grant him the throw-in, he could take a five count or commit some violation that's going to give the ball to the other team, as he sees fit. So, I ask, why waste the time if he wants to turn it over, anyway?
That scenario is not even realistic. Even if you decided to not listen to the kid's plea, most likely, he's not going to be the kid even throwing the ball in. If he is, and he decided to try and hold the ball for five seconds, a teammate or the coach will call timeout before a violation. And he's not going to try and violate again just due to the peer pressure of his teammates getting pissed off at him because of him trying to be altruistic. And if he just tries to blantely make a throw-in violation, that would be another reason for his teammates to get pissed off at him.
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Old Tue May 31, 2011, 09:33am
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That scenario is not even realistic.
Maybe. Some would argue that bringing an error to the ref's attention is an unrealistic, altruistic act (thereby making this whole discussion pointless in some eyes).

Ulimately, our job is to look for and deal with unfair advantages. Is a requested turnover an unfair advantage? If not, then why deny such a request?
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Old Tue May 31, 2011, 09:55am
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Maybe. Some would argue that bringing an error to the ref's attention is an unrealistic, altruistic act (thereby making this whole discussion pointless in some eyes).

Ulimately, our job is to look for and deal with unfair advantages. Is a requested turnover an unfair advantage? If not, then why deny such a request?
It's not always about the play at hand.

What if the player is wrong? What if he has other motives? What if....

Sorry, but it's not always that simple; just like one of the reasons you don't go calling OOB on your partners' lines, or call traveling from the T on the endline in the C's primary.

Unless I'm in the middle of going AP because I didn't see it, the player's comments aren't changing anything.
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