[Doug]

I just got back from a grade school basketball game. The officials were using mechanics that I have never seen before. Where are they from?

One, on an out of bounds play, they would verbally count (one, two, three, ect). on jump balls, they would just raise their hands up. instead of bouncing the ball to a player, on the side, from underneath the basket, they stood by the player and after the ball was in play, they would walk to be the lead again.

oh, and i got a kick out of this one. A1 is dribbling up the court, ball is knocked and fought over and goes out of bounds. the ball went out of bounds about 2 feet from teh lead official (about 1/2 way inbetween 1/2 court and under the basket), he blows his whistle, stops, and extends both arms above his head like he was making a Y. Says very loudly, "i don't know" when it was right there! then, his partner comes forth, and she states that it was last touched by blue so it is maroon ball( also, they used blue and maroon not red, MAROON!, when they yelled the colors it was impossible to tell the difference) she was all the way on the other side, through players, adn didn't have a clue because maroon touched the ball last, and neither of them saw it. they didn't use the alterante poss. she guessed.

blue lost because the ball was given back to maroon and they scored and won. this is just beyond me, but where did this other stuff come from, is it old mechanics, or what. I kind of like the idea of counting, but it isn't nfhs, so i won't do it. curious for feedback

[Edited by Doug on Jan 18th, 2002 at 10:13 PM]