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Please explain "find the ball"
When you make a call you should be aware of where the ball is. For instance, you don't want to call a 3 seconds violation if a player just launched a three-pointer.
By the same token, if the offensive team just launched up a shot you might not necessarily want to call that box-out foul. You may want to wait to see if the shot goes or not. Or, if the foul is bad enough, you might want to call it anyway.
Or, conversely, the other team might have just stolen the ball. You, having no idea where the ball is or what is happening, call a foul for a kid boxing-out that had absolutely no impact on the play (other than possibly to stop a fast break by the other team).
The point is simply this: Be aware of what is going on in the game - that includes where the ball is, where your partner is, what players are trying to accomplish, etc.
I liken this to the guy that calls the bump foul as a player is 1-on-1 going by a defensive player and headed to the hoop. The player makes the layup and the referee comes out, "No shot!" and gives the ball back to them out-of-bounds. Meanwhile, I cringe.
Later,
Brad