Clever Ruse

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BatteryPowered

I'm thinking maybe a dead ball...but I could be wrong.

Can a team "have" a dead ball?

and, I think you're giving the kids way too much credit if you think they should know which official will be responsible for a potential charge play. Heck, if you saw the flop then you would also have seen any foul and it's likely (in my mind's eye) that it would be such a play that you should go get it if your partner didn't.

[BatteryPowered]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Can a team "have" a dead ball?

and, I think you're giving the kids way too much credit if you think they should know which official will be responsible for a potential charge play. Heck, if you saw the flop then you would also have seen any foul and it's likely (in my mind's eye) that it would be such a play that you should go get it if your partner didn't.

I didn't say team A "had" a dead ball...I said maybe there WAS a dead ball.

And I agree...many kids at the high school level wouldn't know which official to tell, much less a junior high kid.