Most Misunderstood Basketball Rules

[BillyMac]

This Forum seems to have slowed down for the summer, so I thought that I would use this as an opportunity to get some feedback from Forum members on a tool that I've been working on for a couple of years.

I started working on this "Most Misunderstood Basketball Rules" list back in March 2005 for a presentation that I was making to a college level basketball coaching class after I was asked to make a presentation on the most misunderstood basketball rules.

This is a list of basketball rules that are often misunderstood by coaches, players, and parents. I developed this list over the past twenty-five years, after officiating thousands of basketball games, listening to erroneous comments from players, coaches, and mostly from fans, and thinking to myself, "I wish I could stop the game and explain the real rule to them". This list is not meant to train officials, but rather, it is meant to educate players, coaches, and fans.

Thanks to the following Official Forum Basketball web site members for their contributions in developing this list: bossref, Hartsy, Jurassic Referee, Camron Rust, Mark Padgett, Nevadaref, Mark Dexter, Dan ref, mdray, Jimgolf, elecref, Assignmentmaker, IREFU2, David M, JeffW, and Back In The Saddle.

It is my hope that many of you will find this list useful in some way. Perhaps some of you may use the list, or a portion of the list, with your own local board. At the minimum, I'm sure that this list will spark some lively, professional discussion, as is often demonstrated on this web site. In order to improve this list, I encourage your comments, suggestions, corrections, deletions, additions, etc.

Due to its length, I will post this list on the next two posts: