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Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 12, 2019, 01:25pm
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Posted By BillyMac
Friday's Quiz Answer Sheet ...

Time's up. Put your pencils down.

1) Jumper A1 touches the ball more than twice before the jump ball ends. Nontossing official calls a violation on jumper A1. Game clock shows 7:58. How is the...
Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 07:48pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, 1942) ...

Not sure why, but I would rather be the first official in the universe to call a division line jump ball violation than be the first official in the universe to call a multiple foul.

Nobody would...
Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 07:34pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Silliness ...

I'm in Connecticut. Who is this "third" official you talk about?

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Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 07:32pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Extra Credit Question ...

How about this:

6) Jumper A1 catches the ball before the jump ball ends. Nontossing official calls a violation on jumper A1. How does one start the game especially in reference to how one sets the...
Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 07:28pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Look Up ...

Because if it's happened, and I'm sure that it has, as the nontossing official in a two person game I've got other things to keep my eye on.

I'm initially looking up to watch the tap at the...
Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 07:16pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Isn't Aware ...

Maybe the NFHS isn't aware that you have been calling it incorrectly?
Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 07:14pm
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Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
New Wording ...

Good, so at least you agree that there should be a point in time when this restriction ends and that this violation should be enforced as a newly written rule?

So under this new wording, it would...
Forum: Basketball Sat Jan 05, 2019, 08:41am
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Riddle Me This ...

Better question, how many officials have observed this and ignored it because they didn't know it was a violation?

Or, how about, how many officials have observed this, knew it was a violation,...
Forum: Basketball Fri Jan 04, 2019, 02:23pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Jumping Jacks ...

bucky, nice video, thanks for sharing.
Forum: Basketball Fri Jan 04, 2019, 12:55pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
I Prefer To Know Both ...

I also do it to try to come up with the correct answer (if the NFHS allows that to be possible), and to reinforce that answer in my own mind. When I'm preaching to the choir, sometimes the choir is...
Forum: Basketball Fri Jan 04, 2019, 12:41pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Will This Be On The Test ???

Good advice.

It's Friday, good time for a jump ball quiz.

1) Jumper A1 touches the ball more than twice before the jump ball ends. Nontossing official calls a violation on jumper A1. Game clock...
Forum: Basketball Fri Jan 04, 2019, 12:10pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Honest Input ...

Thanks for the offer to give you my honest input on your videos, I hope that you can handle it:

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Forum: Basketball Fri Jan 04, 2019, 12:03pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Common Jump Ball Violations ...

BigCat did come up with a valid (although poorly written and well hidden) citation.

During a jump ball a jumper ... is in the proper half of the center restraining circle ... which is farther from...
Forum: Basketball Fri Jan 04, 2019, 09:49am
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Restriction Ends ...

So when did the NFHS intend it to be a violation for either jumper crossing the division line?

When did the NFHS intend this specific restriction to end?

When the official is ready to toss?...
Forum: Basketball Thu Jan 03, 2019, 06:08pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Durng The Jump Ball, When Does The Jump Ball End ???

I also thought so until BigCat showed me the light. It's hidden in the note.

During a jump ball a jumper ... is in the proper half of the center restraining circle ... which is farther from...
Forum: Basketball Thu Jan 03, 2019, 06:03pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Hidden In The Note ...

NOTE: During a jump ball a jumper is not required to face his/her own
basket, provided he/she is in the proper half of the center restraining circle.

ART. 8 The jump ball and the restrictions in...
Forum: Basketball Thu Jan 03, 2019, 03:01pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Oh, That NFHS ...

Sounds like a plan, but why wouldn't the NFHS stipulate that? Wait ... I'm being told ... Oh, that NFHS? Never mind.
Forum: Basketball Thu Jan 03, 2019, 12:30pm
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Restriction Ends ???

ART. 1 For any jump ball, each jumper shall have both feet within that
half of the center restraining circle which is farther from his/her basket.

ART. 7 Neither jumper shall:
a. Touch the...
Forum: Basketball Thu Jan 03, 2019, 11:46am
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
For The Good Of The Cause ...

And, yes, you have to know this for the test.

RULE 6 SECTION 3 JUMP-BALL ADMINISTRATION

ART. 1 . . . For any jump ball, each jumper shall have both feet within that
half of the center...
Forum: Basketball Thu Jan 03, 2019, 11:36am
Replies: 56
Views: 4,694
Posted By BillyMac
Enough Is Enough ...

Start games by giving the ball to the visitors at the division line opposite the table and avoid all this nineteenth century nonsense.

(A preemptive post to Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.: Shut up.)
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