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MONTANA OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION BASKETBALL STUDY CLUB OUTLINES 2012-2013 LESSON #6 NAME______________________________________________________________________________ CLUB_____________________________________ DATE____________________________________ I. Please review and discuss the following information from the three-person mechanics preseason guide: ‣ Signaling and Communication The key to quality signaling is remembering that it is a sequence of fluid movements. Take your time. Signals executed with separate and distinct motions ensure clarity; jumbled quickly together and the messages are lost. It’s not a style contest — it’s a means of communicating valuable information to the players, coaches, scorers and fans. Use only NFHS approved signals. The use of “personal” signals to communicate with partners is inappropriate and can be confusing. Use the same signals that have the same meaning for all involved in the game. During the signaling sequence, keep your head up to watch for additional player activity and ensure dead-hall officiating. Do not leave the area to report a foul or signal a violation until the players appear calm and you’re sure your partner(s) are watching dead-ball action. If there was significant contact and the players ended up on the floor, remain in the area until the players have returned to their feet. When there’s significant contact, communicate with your partners that you’re in the area to let all players know they are being closely monitored. Once you’ve decided it’s okay to move to report, go around the players to the reporting area. Don not run through a crowd because then players are behind you and you lose sight of them. That’s when problems occur. By running around the crowd, you’re ensuring your safety and their safety. Get to the reporting area. It is not acceptable to stand one step off the end line to report a foul. The scorer has to be able to see you report. Communicate closely with your partner(s). It is imperative that your partners be the first to know what you’ve got and how the ensuing action will restart (free throw, throw—in). On time-outs, communicate the spot that the ball will be restarted from before going to report the time-out to the scorer. Don’t consider your call completed until you’re partners know what you’ve got. It’s not a race, SO take your time and communicate clearly.
‣ Positioning is Key on the Bang-Bang Call Have you ever been in a room and found yourself looking at something that looks completely different from different angles? Imagine a 12-inch square piece of white cardboard held up in front of a room for everyone to see. “What color are you looking at?” the presenter asked everyone. The majority of the respondents figured it was an easy question and joined in a chorus of “White!” The presenter shook his head and said, “You are all wrong. I see green.” Before everyone got up to disagree, the presenter turned the cardboard around and sure enough the side that was facing him was green. “It’s all about angles,” the presenter began. “What you see from where you are is not what I see from where I am. If you are in the proper position you have the best vantage point in the gym.” While it’s a simple demonstration, it was very powerful. How you position yourself during the game is fundamental to getting the call correct. A good analogy is the adage that one cannot see the forest beyond the trees. If an official is too close to a play, he or she will lose depth and have a poor view of the action. Closer is not always better. Keep that in mind. Visual lanes Maintaining clear visual lanes is key to getting the call correct. Rather than looking through the players, expand your field of vision by creating a bit of distance away from the action. For the lead, that means backing away from the end line and creating some space from the free-throw lane. The trail should work the imaginary arc outside the three-point line from as far as the foul-lline extended (two-person game) to mid-court if action dictates. In a two-person crew, the trail’s normal arc “sweet spot” is roughly four to six feet off the three-point arc. In a three—person game, the center must move laterally along the sideline to avoid being straightlined. Straightlining Straightlined simply means you are looking at the action with tunnel vision. It is essentially taking a game that is three dimensional and officiating only one element of it. Think of looking through an hourglass, you can see more from the wider area at the top than the neck where the sand falls through. Proper positioning cannot he achieved if you are “standing on a dime.” To get the best possible view of a play, an official needs to move purposely. That doesn’t mean to scamper like someone is chasing you, but rather modify your position in a controlled fluid motion. Sometimes it is one or two steps, other times the action may influence shifting halfway across the court. By standing in one place and trying to see the action by stretching your neck most likely will leave you with two things: a sore neck and an evaluator who will want to wring it. On line calls, being too near to the play puts you in a position where it is difficult to distinguish last touches, possible pushes, line touches and even seeing the line itself. By allowing the action to “blow up” on you, your view of the play becomes obscured by the proximity of the fracas. Of course, on loose balls and quick turnovers sometimes that cannot he helped, but having proper separation gives you a chance to get out of the way and circle back to the play.
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