Point Direction after Made Basket
Why do D1 officials (the Lead) point in opposite direction (towards opposite end line) after a team makes a basket? Must be a college mechanic, but what does it mean? Thanks.
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No, it is not a college mechanic. Just something I think officials have been doing based on their experience. There used to be a time where you signaled how many points they team scored. I think that is what some do on some level.
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I was taught to do it to indicate to the shot clock operator that possession has changed.
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Maybe it's just me, but I seem to only see it after a play at the basket with some contact, but no foul. They point as a way to say "yes I saw the contact, no it's not a foul"
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However, the bigger problem I have with shot clock operators is when they reset the shot clock when they shouldn't. For example, a momentary loss of player control, but Team B never gains control. When a Team A player regains control, I hate looking back up at the clock and seeing they have reset it. |
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Do they still teach this? NCAAM or NCAAW or both? It's never come up in any of the camps I've been to. We do start it in the last minute of the game, of course -- and maybe some just carry that throughout. |
Just recently go a memo from an assignor telling us to NOT do this mechanic.
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I tell them I'd rather them be late and wait to see us give the swirl signal than to reset it too early, but that doesn't stop the problem from happening... |
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IMHO at least in regards to assist the shot clock operator, if they need hand holding on the simple stuff, it needs to go into the game report and the assignor should be encouraging the game site to replace them. |
If I recall correctly the "point towards the court" after a made basket is a holdover from a time when shot clock keepers needed to be reminded to reset the shot clock.
In this modern era the signal is superfluous and has developed into a kind of 'negative signal' used to say "marginal contact, we are playing on". |
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