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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
I see a lot of officials use the hand flip - do they give a reason in camp why this is not acceptable?
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Officials who flip their hand tend to develop the bad habit of doing it quickly. Closing the hand after signaling the first number actually slows the official down. They seem to want a discernible fist between numbers. There may be other reasons that I'm not aware of.
I've started verbalizing the number this year as opposed to the digits. In other words, 42 is "forty-two," not "four, two." Studies have supposedly shown that it's easier for the scorer to understand. Go figure!