Hoops

3 second rule HELP!!!!

I should add that 3 of my "shots" were air-balls ;( came down almost next to the ring !!

anon #385664


you are clearly not a coach,

This is the type of stupid interpretation that comes and goes over the years - there was a spate of this in Geralton WA's easter carnival in ( believe it or not ) 1977.

I was a player coach (point guard). Called a time out and politely asked what was going on - The referes explained to me that they had been instructed that 3 seconds was an "advantage call" and they would only call it if the ball got passed into the camping player.

I then just asked if the 30 sec shot clock, team possesion possesion and thus the 3 second call were all still reset when the shot left the players hands ( that was the rull back then) they said yes - no three second call after ther ball left the shoters hand.

Said fine.

Subbed on my 2 centers and 2 PF's ,( 3 x 6'6" and one at 6' 8" ) which was huge in those days. and I dribbled arround for 20 seconds while they set up a full shoulder - to - shoulder "box" under the rim and in the centre of the zone, and then I let fire from what would have been 3pt teriotory if that had existed then.

after 6 possesions we were 14 points to the good, I lucked 1 shot for 2 and the other 5 were monstered by our rebounders and put back with 2 offensive fouls from behind for 2 bounus points.

The crowd ( such as it was ) - was not happy

I called a time out, called the other coach over and he and the refs and I all agreed that we would go back to calling 3 seconds the "old" way for the rest of the game.

Can't remember who won.

Thanks everyone I did ring the umpire boss and he was with me. The game was in the country so no need to call BSA!

Funny fact is I used to be his school teacher years ago.

Thank u so much I knew you wouldn't let me down

I know he's just a kid but, jeez, did anyone notice the pisspoor effort last night of that peanut masquerading as a court-sweeper in the Adelaide-West Sydney game? What a tool he was. I hope that was his last NBL match.

OK, I don't expect absolute perfection from a 12-13-yo volunteer, but my beef is that his slowness to react and general apathy delayed the game on a number of occasions, and while it had no bearing on the result last night, it may do so in the future, in a sport where momentum is everything.

I counted at least 5-6 occasions where he was just slouching on his backside ogling the cheerleaders instead of being proactive or at least promptly responding to requests from the refs and the players.

I noticed him copping what appeared a stern dressing down from one of the club officials at one stage, but it didn't seem to work though.

The same official had to practically wake the kid up and point to a wet spot on the floor literally a minute later, which the kid finally responded to by ambling up slowly, holding up proceedings and sweeping with all the urgency of a concussed sloth.

I don't think I'm being overly harsh, I just expect a bit more from someone who is doing a job that I bet a lot of his schoolmates/teammates would be envious of, and would most likely to it justice.