Thread: Delayed Whistle
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Old Sun Feb 06, 2005, 11:50am
zebraman zebraman is offline
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Originally posted by ReadyToRef
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My 2 cents:

Down here (in GA) they say often: "A late whistle is a great whistle."

One of the college assignors I work for NEVER and he means NEVER wants an "and 1". The only way you can avoid that is with a patient whistle.

The high school association I am a member of is loaded with college officials. Our assignor here is preaching the "patient whistle" to see if the shot goes in. After patient whistles, I have been asked if I was waiting to see if the shot was going to go. My answer "Of course."

I am no expert but in my neck of the woods, you seem to be doing it just as my assignors want it done.
I know a COLLEGE assignor that hates "and 1's" too. For the college game, maybe the players are strong enough and can handle contact enough for that to be appropriate.

At a high school game though, judging a shooting foul by whether or not the shot goes in as asking for trouble, IMHO. Your just setting kids (and I emphasize kids ) up for frustration and possible problems if you are allowing significant contact to be ignored just because the ball goes through the basket.

Z
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