sliding traveling

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by Adam

That works great until C comes in from across the court with a whistle and the traveling signal.

No different than C coming in with a backcourt violation in a situation in which the trail is signaling the tipped ball (with the signal) that put it back there....

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Rich

Speaking of no pants, we had a streaker during a varsity game enough years ago that we were working 2-person. Male senior student, naked as the day he was born, ran from one corner of the gym across the floor and out the other corner.

Every time I go there that STILL comes up in conversation.

This happened at a game a few years ago. It wasn't my game but my wife was there and saw it. Kid from the home school came running in one corner of the gym, ran across the court, and out the door on the other side. They tracked him down in the woods next to the school in some state of undress.

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

I would like to see NFHS adopt the football "bobbling the ball" mechanic for such situations.

I do it to the bench when they're convinced it's a travel.

Ignorant fans and coaches are a problem with that rule, but they got that way because some officials call that a travel A LOT. Then when someone doesn't call it he's the bad guy.

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by Adam

That works great until C comes in from across the court with a whistle and the traveling signal.

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

No different than C coming in with a backcourt violation in a situation in which the trail is signaling the tipped ball (with the signal) that put it back there....

This is why I always correct newer officials who use the tipped ball signal on a blocked shot. I know when I first started I did that a few times, and it bit me in the butt a few times. You feel like a pretty big idiot while you're up there showing a tipped ball signal and your partner is calling a foul. Only takes a couple of those (or really, just one) to teach you to not use that signal inappropriately!

[SE Minnestoa Re]

We had one of these slides last night. The kid was really barreling and slid quite a ways. Of course the other coach wanted travelling. I said he could slide as far as it took to stop.

The coach smiled and said he was going to work on that at practice tomorrow.