Mechanics Creep

[onetime1]

I call my block foul with closed fists and hit my hips about 7 or 8 times and do it simultaneously while hopping toward the score table. I do this because I think Joey Crawford looks really cool doing it.

[SNIPERBBB]

Originally Posted by onetime1

I call my block foul with closed fists and hit my hips about 7 or 8 times and do it simultaneously while hopping toward the score table. I do this because I think Joey Crawford looks really cool doing it.

That's basically what OHSAA doesn't want to see.

[Freddy]

The approved signal I teach here:
Block - Good Call, Good Signal, Good Report

[deecee]

If someone that has sway on your schedule says something to you, make an adjustment. Otherwise no one cares. I am yet to have an assignor go to me "hey the block signal is open palm, inner hand to waist. Not this closed fist nonsense." I've worked for about half a dozen in 15 years.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by deecee

If someone that has sway on your schedule says something to you, make an adjustment. Otherwise no one cares. I am yet to have an assignor go to me "hey the block signal is open palm, inner hand to waist. Not this closed fist nonsense." I've worked for about half a dozen in 15 years.

I know I have worked for 30 or so different people in basketball alone and never had any of them complain about my mechanics in this way.

Peace

[ODog]

Originally Posted by Freddy

The approved signal I teach here:
Block - Good Call, Good Signal, Good Report

Freddy, I'm glad you have a sense of humor.

That is seriously the most embarrassing thing I've seen, especially since his partner (whose call it was) was correctly about to call a PC foul.

That is unbelievable. And it sure looks like a varsity (2-whistle?!) game in California. Whoa ...

Originally Posted by Freddy

The approved signal I teach here:
Block - Good Call, Good Signal, Good Report

That's the best sell of a call I've ever seen. In any sport. At any level. That guy is God-tier.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by AremRed

That's the best sell of a call I've ever seen. In any sport. At any level. That guy is God-tier.

That wasn't you, was it? Nawwwwwww.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by Freddy

The approved signal I teach here:
Block - Good Call, Good Signal, Good Report

Lol and kinda embarrassing. To call so far out of one's primary. To be 100% wrong. To have a partner who is right there about to make the right call. Then to look goofy as all heck making said wrong call. If the actual call wasn't so bad and wrong this would have been funnier.

[#olderthanilook]

Originally Posted by Freddy

The approved signal I teach here:
Block - Good Call, Good Signal, Good Report

oh...my....goodness

[deecee]

Although all this brings back a fond memory of a "veteran" official and what he said to me once. I was probably about 3 years in and was working a JV game. Vet walks in and starts talking to my partner and I and says "I can tell you guys did not communicate before the game."

I said, "What makes you say that." I knew we emailed but didn't talk. He responds with, "I carry 2 color shoe laces so I always match my partner, and your shoe laces don't match."

I gave him, what I imagine to be, the stupidest look in my life. I stood up and walked out while he was mid-sentence of some other nonsense.

That was the moment I realized that I cannot take everything any official tells me seriously, and I need to weigh what, and whom, is mentoring/coaching me.

The little mentoring I ever did, I always prefaced it with, pick what you want from what I tell you, but don't pick everything. It worked, kinda, for me, and I guarantee it all won't work for you. If it does, you're in bigger trouble then getting mentoring from me.

[BillyMac]

I've been fisting preliminary block signals my entire career. Hard to change. By the time I get to the reporting area I will often report with the correct hands on hips signal. At least I'm half right. Also half wrong.