White Line All the Way Around ...

[BillyMac]

I have occasionally posted about pregame officials/coaches/captains conferences that are, in my opinion, way too long, often including the phrase, "It's the white line all the way around".

Worked in an newly refurbished gym today. New lights, new paint on walls, refinished floor, and new lines painted on floor.

I usually end my pregame with, "Any questions?". Visiting coach, "Yeah, which line is out of bounds?"

So I look. All other lines (lanes, free throw, division, three point, blocks) except the perimeter lines are blue. Perimeter line is white, however behind the white perimeter line is a three foot wide blue area.

So I answer, "It's the white line all the way around". I almost choked as I said it, but it had to be said.

[bucky]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I have occasionally posted about pregame officials/coaches/captains conferences that are, in my opinion, way too long, often including the phrase, "It's the white line all the way around".

Worked in an newly refurbished gym today. New lights, new paint on walls, refinished floor, and new lines painted on floor.

I usually end my pregame with, "Any questions?". Visiting coach, "Yeah, which line is out of bounds?"

So I look. All other lines (lanes, free throw, division, three point, blocks) except the perimeter lines are blue. Perimeter line is white, however behind the white perimeter line is a three foot wide blue area.

So I answer, "It's the white line all the way around". I almost choked as I said it, but it had to be said.

Yes, that will happen. I recall a gym described just as you indicated except that there was no white line. OOB was simply the differentiated coloring from the "tan" court. It was as if the floor "engineers" forgot the smaller, perimeter line.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by bucky

Yes, that will happen. I recall a gym described just as you indicated except that there was no white line. OOB was simply the differentiated coloring from the "tan" court. It was as if the floor "engineers" forgot the smaller, perimeter line.

Why do you need the smaller perimeter line?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by bucky

Yes, that will happen. I recall a gym described just as you indicated except that there was no white line. OOB was simply the differentiated coloring from the "tan" court. It was as if the floor "engineers" forgot the smaller, perimeter line.

The smaller, perimeter line is what is confusing and the problem.
That was part of the point BillyMac was making.
The rest, of course, is his rant against the weirdos who pregame strange stuff.

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by bucky

Yes, that will happen. I recall a gym described just as you indicated except that there was no white line. OOB was simply the differentiated coloring from the "tan" court. It was as if the floor "engineers" forgot the smaller, perimeter line.

You must not have worked in very many gyms because this isn’t uncommon at all (and is permitted by rule).

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The rest, of course, is his rant against the weirdos who pregame strange stuff.

I did not use the term "weirdos".

On behalf of all Forum members, apologies to all such weirdos.

However, that said, I am pleased that IAABO mechanics now allow us to toss without informing the speaking captains, who's numbers we have actually seen (when they pull up their warmups), and memorized, and who are both starting.

Of course, we could still have a request for a defensive match-up if three or more substitutes from the same team enter during an opportunity to substitute.

I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, I've only had a few such match-up requests in the past thirty-eight years.

Although, in my new life as a subvarsity official, who knows?

[crosscountry55]

I agree the smaller perimeter line is unnecessary and nothing more than a decorative fad.

I am also not at all confused by it, and thus I could care less about it.


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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

I am also not at all confused by it ...

Nor was I, but I did find it odd that only the perimeter line was white, all the other lines were blue (lanes, free throw, division, three point, blocks), and the three foot wide blue area was strictly decorative.

I can't remember working a gym where the division line was a different color than the perimeter line, but I really never paid much attention, so I'll watch for it over the next few weeks.

Why didn't the painters have the three foot wide blue area as the out of bounds boundary (with no white line at all)?

[bucky]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The smaller, perimeter line is what is confusing and the problem.
That was part of the point BillyMac was making.
The rest, of course, is his rant against the weirdos who pregame strange stuff.

We must not be discussing the same thing. Why would the white line around the court be confusing? What was BM's point?

Doing a search (images) for basketball courts shows a vast majority of them with the perimeter line. I did find one that did not have one but it was of a court in one of the those giant field houses.




These are the ones that I hate and that really confuse players.

[crosscountry55]

That second gym photo looks like it may be familiar to JRut.


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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bucky

What was BM's point?

That for the first time in my career it was important and relevant for me to say in my officials/coaches/captains pregame conference, "It's the white line all the way around", in order to properly reply to a coach's question.

I gagged as I said it, but I got it out.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

That for the first time in my career it was important and relevant for me to say in my officials/coaches/captains pregame conference, "It's the white line all the way around", in order to properly reply to a coach's question.

I gagged as I said it, but I got it out.

There's no reason for a coach to have to ask that question. How could that line be IN bounds?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rich

There's no reason for a coach to have to ask that question. How could that line be IN bounds?

Yeah, coaches know all the rules.

No need for a rule discussion here when I was able to simply answer his stupid question with the "weirdo" (to quote Nevadaref) line, "It's the white line all the way around", and get out of Dodge.