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Originally posted by Junker
My point was that, especially in three whistle, you don't want to come with any mechanic until you make eye contact with your partners. I have been told, especially in the case of a scramble for the ball, hit your whistle, get you hand in the air and close in. After you make sure your partners don't have a foul that you didn't see, go to the jump. Coaches get a little irate when you have a double whistle and one guy has a jump and another has a foul. I'm pretty good about eye contact most of the time, but I need to make sure I wait with the mechanic on jump balls. This is something that I've almost always talked about and heard talked about in 3 whistle pregames.
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And the coaches don't get upset when you have an open hand and your partner has a fist? Unless you're both just blowing the whistle without any hand signal at all, the opportunity is there for a "double call." Talk and get it right (or step up and take it), but have something when you blow the whistle.