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Old Fri Jan 21, 2011, 01:38pm
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Originally Posted by nwsquid View Post
What IS a bird dog signal? I am so new, I don't even know what it is. (Don't worry I don't officiate anything above 3-4 grade city rec league ball...yet.)
BIRDDOG: (archaic) The action of a basketball official whereby s/he, with one closed fist thrust skyward as far as it will go without detaching from her/his body, positions the other hand perpendicular to the vertical line of her/his body to the extend that it will reach with downward facing open hand or single finger or index and middle fingers pointing at or about the person who committed a foul. More difficult to execute in cases of a double foul, unless said official was born with three arms.
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