Advice for rookie officials

[Camron Rust]

Originally posted by cdaref
Here are a few ideas:
95% of all the basketball stuff you will see will be stuff you already know--you know what a foul is, you know what stepping out of bounds is, you know there are 4 quarters, you know all that stuff.

I disagree.

Ask any generally basketball knowledgeable person about the following:

Ball inadvertantly hittng the leg....most will call it a kick

Shooter making arm-to-arm contact with vertical defender....most will call it a foul on the defender

Defender sliding sideways and taking in the chest while sliding....most will incorrectly call a block

Player grabbing rebound over an opponent...most will incorrectly call a foul

Player dives to the floor and recovers the ball while still sliding....most will call traveling

Defender jumps staight up and is contacted by the shooter (check to chest)....most will incorrectly call a block.

Defender blocks the shot through contact on the hand...most will incorrectly call a foul.

On a throwin, the thrower shuffles the feet....most will incorrectly call a travel.

....

...and they'd be wrong most of the time.

Most of these situations will occur several times in every game. You don't have to get into the more esoteric rules, even the basic rules are widely misunderstood by those who have not studied the rule book.