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Forum: Basketball Tue Mar 02, 2010, 10:54am
Replies: 28
Views: 3,024
Posted By The Canuck
Selected to AA boys and girls tournament (run...

Selected to AA boys and girls tournament (run concurrently at the same venues). Worked the girls bronze medal game.

Due to a presumably Olympic-related scheduling quirk, I have three AAA boys...
Forum: Basketball Sun Mar 09, 2008, 11:47am
Replies: 45
Views: 4,278
Posted By The Canuck
Along the same lines (not mine but happened in a...

Along the same lines (not mine but happened in a JC game)...

Fouls are 7-0 (NCAA rules) against the home team. Foul called on V1. V coach jumps up.

V COACH: Homered! I'm getting homered! I...
Forum: Basketball Wed Feb 27, 2008, 04:27pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,764
Posted By The Canuck
But there are rules about rough play on free...

But there are rules about rough play on free throws... personal fouls!
Forum: Basketball Wed Feb 27, 2008, 04:17pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,764
Posted By The Canuck
What do YOU think?

What do YOU think?
Forum: Basketball Wed Feb 27, 2008, 12:28pm
Replies: 42
Views: 3,764
Posted By The Canuck
Here's the problem. The act of going...

Here's the problem.

The act of going out-of-bounds specifically to avoid a defensive player in itself is not covered in the rules.

However, with rule 4.2.2 as our background, we can warn...
Forum: Basketball Tue Sep 04, 2007, 02:31pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,336
Posted By The Canuck
"In the United States today, we have more than...

"In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism." -- Spiro Agnew

"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had...
Forum: Basketball Thu Aug 16, 2007, 11:23am
Replies: 90
Views: 6,001
Posted By The Canuck
Welcome to justice, Canada-style. In a town 550...

Welcome to justice, Canada-style. In a town 550 miles away, an elementary school principal told his mistress he wanted to be with his wife and only his wife. After several threatening e-mails, she...
Forum: Basketball Mon Aug 13, 2007, 11:02pm
Replies: 71
Views: 4,301
Posted By The Canuck
Perhaps it's... wait for it, my favourite word......

Perhaps it's... wait for it, my favourite word... preventative. If it doesn't stop in the last minute, we'll have players crossing the end line grabbing their opponents to foul to try to stop the...
Forum: Basketball Sun Aug 12, 2007, 11:05pm
Replies: 71
Views: 4,301
Posted By The Canuck
Nothing silly about it Mark, you're absolutely...

Nothing silly about it Mark, you're absolutely right. But this is language players understand. Nobody wants a technical to decide the game. If it has to, it has to, but if it can be prevented in...
Forum: Basketball Sun Aug 12, 2007, 02:34am
Replies: 71
Views: 4,301
Posted By The Canuck
If they're ignoring the ball after a made basket,...

If they're ignoring the ball after a made basket, TWEET with a delay of game warning. "I've got a delay of game warning against Team A. Let's keep it moving boys, next time will be a T." If A...
Forum: Basketball Thu Jul 12, 2007, 12:06pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,263
Posted By The Canuck
Suppose...

Canadian coaches (in my area) being who they are, this has come up a few times within our association, with widely varying accounts.

What if anything does an official do if his day job is used as...
Forum: Basketball Mon Jul 09, 2007, 01:03pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,680
Posted By The Canuck
Working a senior girls game once. I make a...

Working a senior girls game once. I make a traveling call, and both the dribbler and defender look at me as if I've got an arm growing out of my nose. The dribbler throws me the ball and stomps...
Forum: Basketball Tue May 29, 2007, 04:06pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,131
Posted By The Canuck
I am having a cup of coffee right now. I invite...

I am having a cup of coffee right now. I invite you all to do the same. It is common ground and will cut the jabs everyone is taking.

Centre line extended for technical fouls "of a[n]......
Forum: Basketball Thu May 24, 2007, 01:22pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,131
Posted By The Canuck
I know. But right now, FIBA rules are as foreign...

I know. But right now, FIBA rules are as foreign to me as they are to you. I am posting this so that I might learn them better.
Forum: Basketball Thu May 24, 2007, 01:06pm
Replies: 75
Views: 5,131
Posted By The Canuck
I ask the coach to speak to the scorekeeper. ...

I ask the coach to speak to the scorekeeper. Once the free throw has been taken, the scorekeeper will then sound the horn, at which point the timeout shall be granted.
Forum: Basketball Wed May 02, 2007, 11:12am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,982
Posted By The Canuck
31.2.4 Interference occurs during a shot for a...

31.2.4 Interference occurs during a shot for a field goal when:
- A player touches the basket or the backboard while the ball is in contact with the ring.

31.3.2 If the violation is committed by...
Forum: Basketball Wed Apr 11, 2007, 02:28am
Replies: 23
Views: 4,773
Posted By The Canuck
The real answer...

Blow the whistle again and raise both fists up over your head.

If you're doing FIBA rules that is :p That signal means a disqualifying foul has been called.
Forum: Basketball Tue Apr 03, 2007, 03:00am
Replies: 38
Views: 2,678
Posted By The Canuck
Come on guys. We're all one big team here. ...

Come on guys. We're all one big team here. Can't we all just chill out and have a cup of coffee?
Forum: Basketball Mon Apr 02, 2007, 12:38am
Replies: 38
Views: 2,678
Posted By The Canuck
This may be very naive of me, but we don't have...

This may be very naive of me, but we don't have AAU or anything like it where I come from. Why are AAU games full of expontentially more insane people than high school games? What is it (or isn't...
Forum: Basketball Sat Mar 24, 2007, 02:03pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,556
Posted By The Canuck
SECONDED!!! I tuned in with two minutes...

SECONDED!!!

I tuned in with two minutes left... you said it all, man. HOLY CRAP.
Forum: Basketball Thu Mar 22, 2007, 01:52am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,437
Posted By The Canuck
An exam like this exists? Why was I not informed?

An exam like this exists? Why was I not informed?
Forum: Basketball Thu Mar 22, 2007, 01:49am
Replies: 44
Views: 3,586
Posted By The Canuck
Our country goes to war?!

Our country goes to war?!
Forum: Basketball Tue Mar 20, 2007, 02:13pm
Replies: 44
Views: 3,586
Posted By The Canuck
That's apparently what happened in BC. I started...

That's apparently what happened in BC. I started when we were doing modified NCAA but lots of guys have been frustrated by constantly having to learn new rules.

Which rules do you think we ought...
Forum: Basketball Tue Mar 20, 2007, 01:40pm
Replies: 44
Views: 3,586
Posted By The Canuck
Fiba

The coaches in my province, caving in to pressure from Basketball Canada, have voted to have high schools play FIBA rules next year.

As a result, I will now be restricted to enjoying everybody's...
Forum: Basketball Sun Mar 18, 2007, 12:17pm
Replies: 10
Views: 3,790
Posted By The Canuck
Whoever that guy is, he sure likes to hear...

Whoever that guy is, he sure likes to hear himself talk.

It takes maximum three sentences what it took four paragraphs for that guy to say.
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