things that strike this rookie as odd...

[cmathews]

the pregame meeting "warning" is pretty common. I am of the mind that I don't start the TO clock until the players have made it near their own benches anyway, so while the players are coming over I can get the full or thirty signal. However if I look over and ask full or thirty and don't get a response, it is a full....

The three second thing will be debated here I am sure. I am one that will do almost anything to avoid a three second call. As you progress you may or may not adopt this philosophy. What I tell our young guys here when I see them using the 3 second call a lot is this. What advantage did they gain? I warn them tell them to get out, but if they don't dump the ball into them or they don't set a screen in the lane, what advantage have they gained? Maybe 1 in 10 times they will get position on a rebound. If there is no advantage gained there is no violation. You see it all the time, evaluators tell us not to worry so much about the palming violation if the player is just up on top yo yoing the ball, not trying to get somewhere....I know for a fact that the big dogs at D-I go out of their way to not call three seconds. At a camp I heard someone ask a guy who has worked a national chapionship game in the last 5 years what he would do if a kid was in the lane...he said, I will warn him, if that doesn't work, I will walk up to him and tell him to get is lazy a$$ out of the lane, and if that doesn't work I will go grab him and pull him out of the lane.....