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I don't think im afraid to make call, but im afraid to use 30 seconds for the reason i mentionned above: sometime irrelevant and really often hard to enforce. As ref i feel more confuse to don't have in my arsenal a helpful weapon than to having to much of them.
In you listing jono I see clearly the gap, because you talk about timed penalty for situation were i never saw them apply.
Mostly right now we see 30 seconds apply when players make ugly moves, not to balance back a situation. If we fallow your idea then we are missing a lot of 30 seconds penalty in every tourney we goes. Even when the ref is a good one, they didn't wistle for the cases you mention.
Im not sure about the reason ref aren't calling stuff. Yes for sure a lot of people are afraid too.
But you can see that more and more ref are giving ball turnovers, and i think that's because they are easy to enforce. I remember when we only have double tap out, we didn't use them so much because they where in game calls, really hard to enforce (how to name a player you don't know etc).
Giving the power to ref to stop time and game and give ball turnover was a huge step forward. As the delayed penalty is also.
Also my proposal is different than double tap out.
We get rid of double tap out because they were impossible to enforce:
-How to call a player during game
-How to make a player who have to go across the court without interfere with others.
For me double tap-out was a perfect exemple of a penalty we get rid of because of material issues. My proposal is really simple to enforce, didnt' requiere any extra material or specific court etc.
What's the flaw you see in this jono? more than putting somebody out in one corner who can be in his own camp in one time and in opponent one the next game?
In a perfect world where we have every time a hockey court structure and enough assistants to enforce it, i would not complain so much, because 30 's would be used in the situations you mentionned in your post. But we aren't, and that's why i feel something missing.
i fell that this rule was written more to get apply in this ideal worlds than in the one we are playing in. And when i reffed in the past, i naturally apply the micro timed penalty i talked before, because it feel so simple and natural. And players, guilty or not, were happy with it because it looked like a balanced call.