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[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by RonRef

At the levels you describe working do you think it is necessary to point to each basket and tell the teams which way they going for the opening jumpball?

What harm can that procedure possibly do?

Do you also think that a directional signal by the R for the AP possession at the start of each quarter shouldn't be given either? The idea there is to let the teams know whose ball it is and which way that they're going, isn't it?

Anything that an official can do to stop teams from going the wrong way on the initial jump of the game is fine with me. That's just "preventive officiating" imo.