Throw-In Issue

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I just say, "That's your designated spot".

Our local mechanic is to only do this on backcourt endline throwins, where there can be two options: designated spot, or "run the endline".

Do they tell you how to use the bathroom too?

Way to much micro-managing if this is what they tell you to say or not to say.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Do they tell you how to use the bathroom too?

Like Mark Padgett's First Rule of Officiating?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Way to much micro-managing if this is what they tell you to say or not to say.

Several choices for all individual officials nationwide: say nothing, everybody say (pretty much) the same thing (according to the When In Rome ... principle), or everybody say their own thing.

Since most mechanics sets (IAABO, NFHS, CCA) have us say something (realizing that some geographic areas use an approach allowing for individual expression) we (those that follow a specific mechanics set) might as well say (and signal) what the manual wants us to say (and signal), it doesn't get much (other than the freedom to say (and signal) anything the individual official wants) easier than that, especially when teaching mechanics to new officials (they can look it up).