Indicating Direction at Start of Quarter

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by zm1283

I figured this was in the manual, but I've just always done it because none of the players ever seem to know whose ball it is at the start of the quarter. I'm holding out hope they'll figure out how the AP arrow works one of these days.

Since we don't use the manual, I hope this is in our training materials.

Sometimes, when the players ask (and I think they will be receptive), I say something like "It sure would be nice if someone would invent an arrow or something that we could just put on the table to tell everyone which direction we will be going."

Occasionally, that happens in the 2Q, and then after halftime, the player looks at the arrow, walks to the correct end of the court, and gives me a thumbs up.