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Originally posted by BktBallRef
Ever administer a FT, yell "2!", signal with 2 fingers and then have some knucklehead ask, "How many ref?" 
You just can't win!
Tony
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Every game! I do not answer verbally, because that could distract the shooter. I simple signal with my fingers low, near my waist, out of the shooter's view.
As for verbalizing on violations, we're taught to do so here, thus it is expected. We also keep it short, using "walk" as a nice, crisp word, instead of "traveling" which will come out who knows how.
My personal signal when a player barely steps on a side or end line is:
- Open hand up with whistle
- Point to the line and say loudly "line"
- Point the wrong way
and say the color
I find that the word "line" answers the guaranteed question "What'd they do?" and works well, plus makes it obvious where the inbound will be. The extra, not-by-the-book action consumes ~0.3 seconds. I expect an evaluator will question it at some point but for now it is one of my personal idiosyncrasies that I believe adds to the game.