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Old Mon Oct 08, 2012, 02:25pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Scratch85 View Post
Does everyone announce direction and color? It is common in my area but I am not sure why.

As the R, I confirm with captains that their team is on the floor and ready to go. Then I whistle and toss. Probably less than 2 seconds between tweet and toss. Not much time to get in trouble. As a U, I keep my mouth shut and hope nothing blows up.

Personally, I think a jump ball is a terrible way to get a great start to a game but a great way to get a terrible start to a game.
I do if for no other reason to make sure I am have the teams going in the right direction as the Referee. I tend to look at the benches and hoping I will pick up on misdirection of the players. The last thing I want to do is start a game with teams going in the wrong direction.

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