officials

Depends on the Ref Some will not call it if both feet are not in the lane and some reset there count when someone from the crowd yells "3 seconds" He probably means that the coach does not understand how that particular official interprets the rule [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Thats just it..... some coaches including TJ keep yelling 3 seconds after a shot. They dont understand the rule. I used to think he had a deep passion to win the game. Now I just think he is out of control. He bereted an offical one night and even went as far as telling the offical to look his kids in the eye and to explain to them why he was cheating them. To me that is unprofessional. He is supposed to set an example to the young men. With the attitude he displays, do you actually think he is setting a good example to the young men? I dont. He always blames the officals for his defeats. When is he ever gonna allow his team and hisself to be held accountable?

I have posted this before, calling three seconds is a chicken crap call. If a kid is moving around the lane, one foot in, one foot out but still moving and not CAMPING or standing there with the ball, I will not call it. NEVER! I hear people scream "3 seconds" even though shots are being made on goal. You can stay in that lane until the cows as long as there are shots being took on goal.

amen brother!

As far as hand checks and playing more physical ball, that's what you get when you play teams from other Regions, especially after you advance past region D. IMO that causes "culture shock" for our teams who are used to having some of the officials calling too tight. It's hard to adjust but the other team is used to it because this is how they've played all year. I think for the most part we have some pretty good officials. Some aren't as good. And I think some may even show some biases. But if you're going to call it tight or let them play do it from the get go and be consistent throughout the game and call it even between the teams. I know some calls will be missed but in a good called game it usually evens out.

i gotta agree. ive seen several final fours and some of them were called about as lax as a playground game. anybody planning on winning up state better be ready to be harrassed with hand checking and all around aggressive play.

The girls are not exempt from this "lax" calling either. I remember Gate City's Brittany Rogers having a black eye last year in the finals action. Those girls games were some of the roughest I have ever seen.

You mean they finally called all those hand checks on Gate City? My God, I wish I'd went to have seen that, I didn't think it was possible for refs to actually call those fouls.

Gate city does play agressive defense but that's no excuse. I can remember a moment in the lpd championship game where Cody Salyer rebounded the ball under our goal and was mobbed basically by three Burton defenders. I also don't think refs understand the meaning of a walk. I mean if a player has the ball on the ground and he's rolling around it's a walk. I also say a ref allow burton to call a timeout while the ball was loose i mean ir's pathetic.

GC gets away with murder every game they play, two hands on a mans back is a foul. The refs here dont call it so they get away with it, when they go to state they call it and they lose. I remember when TS beat GC in the Regional Final a few years back when good ole Chucky Starnes called those fouls on GC and this place went nuts.