"Jim Marshall" Play

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Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Really? We're not supposed to say the color and point when each team comes out of time-out or intermission?

I think that JetMet is really saying that it is not our responsibility to REMIND EACH TEAM which direction they are going following each time out. This play is only marginally different from the stack "loop" sideline inbounds play in which a player cuts back toward the backcourt and then loops around (frequently with the help of a screen) toward their attacking basket.

I had BOTH TEAMS in a 5th grade travel game go the wrong way following a throw-in after a timeout. And, YES, I clearly indicated with a signal and a verbal indication the direction of the team taking the throw-in. The throw-in team shot at the wrong basket. The other team got the rebound and went rapidly toward the division line. That team's coach yelled, "there going the wrong way" -- to which I responded, "I know." Fortunately, for him, he called time out BEFORE the player committed a violation.

The coach of the throw-in team was LIVID -- at HIS OWN TEAM -- as he actually had set up an inbounds play that they did not execute!!! As a coach, I have called many, many plays (like the "loop" play or screen-the-screener under the basket) that are 100% designed to deceive the defense into thinking my player was doing one thing when he was really doing something completely different.

This play is little different. This is a COACH problem -- for the defending team!!!