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Old Wed Mar 26, 2014, 12:16am
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Originally Posted by Rich1 View Post
The open hand is for violations, the closed hand for fouls. A jump ball is neither which is why we simply signal it as a jump ball.

Our practice around here is to blow the whistle and take several steps toward the action (moving in to prevent continued jostling about) before giving the jump ball signal. This gives us a few seconds to see if our partners have something different.
If your partners have something different then you figure it out. If I have a held ball and my partner has a foul, figured out which came first.
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