Tennessee/Texas 5sec. call

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Sorry, not right.
2-7-9 . . . Silently and visibly counting seconds to administer the throw-in (7-6), free-throw (8-4; 9-1-3), backcourt (9-8) and closely-guarded (9-10) rules.

This is important because of all the video taping of games these days. When a coach sends a copy of the tape to the league office of you swinging your arm only four times, but calling a five second violation, you're in trouble. When a coach sends one that shows you swinging your arm six times, but still NOT calling a five second violation, you're screwed!

Your arm swings are your official count.

Actually, I swung my arms 5 times and when it came back to my chest to go out for 6, is when I checked for violation. Also, keep in mind that I'm not just standing right there looking at the thrower. I'm also watching for illegal contact by the defense, illegal screens that are right in front of me.

I don't know if I agree that your arm count takes presidence. My count is always in my head, and the reason is such. I give the ball to the thrower-in, and I accidently drop my whistle. I got one arm up to hold the clock, and the other arm needs to retrieve the whistle and put it back in my mouth, during this time, the count remains in my head even though I may have missed a couple of seconds with my arm movement and consequently only show 3 arm movements for the violation. In counting 10 seconds, sometimes I forget to start the count, and start my count at 2 or 3, however much time I think has elapse from the time the ball was put in play to now. I sync my cadence with the clock, really useful with a shot clock because if I'm at 5, and the shot clock shows 30, I know I'm in sync with the time cadence.