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Something that I work on and is helping me is seeing the whole play develop. You get a sense of "does this play need a whistle." Sometimes it does and sometimes it does not. You can always blow the whistle a little bit late. Remember a wise man once said, a late whistle is a great whistle. From what I hear, they have attempted to eliminate the majority of the "and ones" from the college basketball and the trickle down effect is happening for high school games. That means that we need to have more of a patient whistle.
One thing that I did this summer with some of my games was not use my lanyard and keep the whistle in my hand till I thought that need to plow it. Sometimes by the time I got the whistle in my mouth the play had developed and a whistle would have be wrong. Other times I was glad that I waited because it was now a shooting foul rather than a non shooting foul. It did not take long to get the whistle in my mouth but that little bit of time helped to process the play a lot.
Hope it helps.
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