Timekeeper sneaking in subs

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

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Question for Eastshire: Team B is down by over 40 with less than a minute to play. Team A scores, And team B inbounds to their backup point guard who proceeds to travel before getting his dribble started 80 feet from the basket with no defender anywhere near him...are you going to call that travel?

Originally Posted by Eastshire

I don't know about you, but I've been taught not to stare at the dribbler in this situation but to look up the court and find the first defender. So no, I'm not watching his feet and no I'm probably not going to see the travel well enough to call it. If you choose not to believe that, that's fine, but it is the truth.

What defender? There is no defender in sight. Again, an official who makes up excuses.

Originally Posted by Eastshire

If calling the game according to the rules means I don't "progress," that's just fine by me. I'm not in this gig for the glory of the games I get. I'm in it because I like sports and I enjoy the work.

Glory of the games? Is that your euphenism for progressing and getting higher paying games?

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

What defender? There is no defender in sight. Again, an official who makes up excuses.



Glory of the games? Is that your euphenism for progressing and getting higher paying games?

Which is why I was trained to look for him.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

Which is why I was trained to look for him.

Before the ball was thrown-in you would have known there was no defender in sight in the situation rockyroad proposed. Again, you are searching for a bunch of lame excuses as to why you wouldn't have called a travel but you feel like you can judge every other official as having no integrity for letting the subs in at an unauthorized time.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Before the ball was thrown-in you would have known there was no defender in sight in the situation rockyroad proposed. Again, you are searching for a bunch of lame excuses as to why you wouldn't have called a travel but you feel like you can judge every other official as having no integrity for letting the subs in at an unauthorized time.

Now you're just making things up. I said I would, and I have even this season, call travelling in a lop sided game on the losing team with no defender in the backcourt. I don't see how saying I might not always catch it makes me looking for excuses.

I don't deliberately set aside rules, and neither should any referee.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

Now you're just making things up. I said I would, and I have even this season, call travelling in a lop sided game on the losing team with no defender in the backcourt. I don't see how saying I might not always catch it makes me looking for excuses.

I don't deliberately set aside rules, and neither should any referee.

I believe you do call those travels against the lopsided loser. Do you call 3 seconds by the book? Do you call any multiple fouls, or do you pick one when there are multiple players who foul a shooter?