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HoopsFan21 said:
What would happen if someone got uniform numbers 16-19?
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Any player wearing a number with a digit over five would be assessed with a technical or not allowed to play. No digit larger than five is allowed in high school or college. It makes it easier for an official to give the scorer the number of the player fouled or the one who committed the foul or the player involved in whatever. The official has only five fingers so if a player wore a number six, when the official holds up five fingers on one hand and one finger on the other hand, how would the scorer know if he is signalling number six or number 51 or number 15?
 
I guess we could revert to some form of math:

Gabby PLUS Moriah for today.
 
donalddoowop said:
Any player wearing a number with a digit over five would be assessed with a technical or not allowed to play. No digit larger than five is allowed in high school or college. It makes it easier for an official to give the scorer the number of the player fouled or the one who committed the foul or the player involved in whatever. The official has only five fingers so if a player wore a number six, when the official holds up five fingers on one hand and one finger on the other hand, how would the scorer know if he is signalling number six or number 51 or number 15?
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Like I said, since they run over to the table anyway, they could just say #19. They actually don't have to use their fingers. The scorers table already knows who's on the floor. They only got 5 numbers to choose from. I don't think it would be that hard really. Heck, the player raises their hand anyway.
 
donalddoowop said:
Any player wearing a number with a digit over five would be assessed with a technical or not allowed to play. No digit larger than five is allowed in high school or college. It makes it easier for an official to give the scorer the number of the player fouled or the one who committed the foul or the player involved in whatever. The official has only five fingers so if a player wore a number six, when the official holds up five fingers on one hand and one finger on the other hand, how would the scorer know if he is signalling number six or number 51 or number 15?
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meyers7 said:
Like I said, since they run over to the table anyway, they could just say #19. They actually don't have to use their fingers. The scorers table already knows who's on the floor. They only got 5 numbers to choose from. I don't think it would be that hard really. Heck, the player raises their hand anyway.
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Some how the refs managed to figure this out:
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It would be really easy to have all the numbers from 0 to 1023. Just use binary!! Even single handed would get up all numbers up to 31.
Can you see it now - a ref calling a foul then sitting down in the corner to figure out which fingers to hold up.
But then imagine never running out of numbers that have been retired!!
(there might be a few obscene ones in there too - lol (I'm sorry - the number 4 is not allowed)
 
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trisailin said:
It would be really easy to have all the numbers from 0 to 1023. Just use binary!! Even single handed would get up all numbers up to 31.
Can you see it now - a ref calling a foul then sitting down in the corner to figure out which fingers to hold up.
But then imagine never running out of numbers that have been retired!!
(there might be a few obscene ones in there too - lol (I'm sorry - the number 4 is not allowed)
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132 is a no-no!!!
 
meyers7 said:
Like I said, since they run over to the table anyway, they could just say #19. They actually don't have to use their fingers. The scorers table already knows who's on the floor. They only got 5 numbers to choose from. I don't think it would be that hard really. Heck, the player raises their hand anyway.
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The refs are not supposed to run to the table every time a foul is called. That is too time consuming and could eventually tire out an official. The high school and college rules call for officials to give signals without going to the table. Every player does not raise his or her hand when assessed a foul. It has been a long time since that has been required. The NBA does not care about the size of the digits and some of their rules are a lot different from high school and college, but you know that. If you have a problem with the rule of not having a digit over five you should take it up with the high school and college rules makers.
 
donalddoowop said:
Any player wearing a number with a digit over five would be assessed with a technical or not allowed to play. No digit larger than five is allowed in high school or college. It makes it easier for an official to give the scorer the number of the player fouled or the one who committed the foul or the player involved in whatever. The official has only five fingers so if a player wore a number six, when the official holds up five fingers on one hand and one finger on the other hand, how would the scorer know if he is signalling number six or number 51 or number 15?
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How does the scorer know if you mean 15 or 51 now?
 
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Today's countdown ...

Two times (Diana plus Morgan plus Megan)

I believe that Tuck is in China and playing in the slot formerly held by one Maya Moore. Best wishes to Morgan!!

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Ok I'm not in the twitter verse but the UCONN women's basketball stopped the countdown with Tierney Lawlor at #20, That was understandable but it was 8 days ago.
In the mean time They Missed out on some of my favorite numbers.
I gonna resume my own count down with the Gabalous one and go from there until we get caught up.
 
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Ok, I'm have to get real creative over the next 5 days because no UCONN WBB player has ever worn #9, #8, #7,or #6. @Biff you out there? Stay tuned!
 
CocoHusky said:
Ok, I'm have to get real creative over the next 5 days because no UCONN WBB player has ever worn #9, #8, #7,or #6. @Biff you out there? Stay tuned!
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How about team pictures from our 9th, 8th, 7th and 6th National Championship teams?
 
hoopsdiva said:
How about team pictures from our 9th, 8th, 7th and 6th National Championship teams?
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Good thought but I think I'm going to use UCONN players numbers from the US national team for Stewie-9, Maya-7, Sue-6. That would cover all except #8.
 
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