A couple of 3-whistle questions

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by Junker
My point was that, especially in three whistle, you don't want to come with any mechanic until you make eye contact with your partners. I have been told, especially in the case of a scramble for the ball, hit your whistle, get you hand in the air and close in. After you make sure your partners don't have a foul that you didn't see, go to the jump. Coaches get a little irate when you have a double whistle and one guy has a jump and another has a foul. I'm pretty good about eye contact most of the time, but I need to make sure I wait with the mechanic on jump balls. This is something that I've almost always talked about and heard talked about in 3 whistle pregames.

The proper mechanic is to not use the stop clock signal and go straight up with the jump ball signal. I do not care what coaches say, this is not a double foul situation. If a coach cannot understand that one official has one thing and the other official has something first, then they will just have to get over it.

Peace