Delayed Whistle

[Leggs45]

A patient whistle is good... sometimes.

If you have a "bang-bang" play you have to sell it. You have to show confidence by having a loud whistle with strong mechanics almost immediately.

From coaches and fans perspectives, a patient whistle does seem like an indecisive whistle. But to the trained official, I hope we all agree that if the contact does not have an affect on the play we should not call a foul (otherwise, we would be calling fouls everytime there was contact on the court).

When coaches have said that my call was late, I've replied "It was the right call".