Off-Ball? Make that Odd-Ball!!

[Junker]

If you're staying in your area, you are officiating off ball. As far as talking about it in pregame, we do when we talk about staying in our area. Often during time outs or the quarter break we'll talk for a second about illegal screens or pushing on the block, especially if there's a certain match up that seems to be getting rough. Also, some of this is team specific. There's one team I officiate a lot in our area that runs a lot of screens in their offense. The do a nice job of screening but as the game goes on and the players get tired, the screens get a little sloppy. When working them I try to remember to talk to my partners about it.