Counting

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by ChuckElias
Without being at your game, I think that the girls who were counting were neither trying to show you up nor trying to influence your decision. I think they are trying to rattle the inbounder. It's a way of adding pressure on the inbound pass. I would not give a T for it, although I would try to handle it as you did: "Ladies, thanks for the help, but I'll handle the counting."

Just my $.02

For the second time this week: What he said.

[Ref in PA]

In one game, I solved the problem by telling the girl that her verbal counting was confusing me and to be fair I would have to start my count over and over to get it right. She got the message and stopped counting out loud.

[jdccpa]

One time I had a GJV game where I called a 5 sec. violation on the white team on two successive OOB plays. From then on each time they had an OOB play one of the white players on the floor counted off the 5 sec. in sync with my arm counts.