"Team Control" Mechanics

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

Some of us don't care which hand we use. I use my left hand on some fouls, the right on others.

Bigger fish to fry, if you ask me (which you didn't).

if you use different hands then you are in better shape than me, that is my point, because i generally signal all fouls with my left fist up first...if i am T and basket is to my right, the mechanic would be to come up with my right fist and punch the other way w/my left....for C at the same basket it would be the opposit, come up w/ left fist (closest to basket) and punch the other way w/ right fist..agree w/ you that there are bigger fish, but some assignors will ding you for mechanics and it is just one of those things you have to do over and over to get get comfortable -- and how many TC calls do you make in a game, 1, 2? hard to get used to...

[Rich]

Originally Posted by kbilla

if you use different hands then you are in better shape than me, that is my point, because i generally signal all fouls with my left fist up first...if i am T and basket is to my right, the mechanic would be to come up with my right fist and punch the other way w/my left....for C at the same basket it would be the opposit, come up w/ left fist (closest to basket) and punch the other way w/ right fist..agree w/ you that there are bigger fish, but some assignors will ding you for mechanics and it is just one of those things you have to do over and over to get get comfortable -- and how many TC calls do you make in a game, 1, 2? hard to get used to...

There is no rhyme or reason to which hand I use, although in the team control situation when I'm the trail or center, I think I tend to use the outside hand cause I bring it up and then punch with it. As the lead, it really doesn't matter, does it?

I know some assignors are anal about this -- one college assignor at a camp I went to last year requires his officials to ALWAYS call fouls with the outside hand. Figured he must have a pretty good staff if that's one of his big concerns, which it seemed to be.

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

There is no rhyme or reason to which hand I use, although in the team control situation when I'm the trail or center, I think I tend to use the outside hand cause I bring it up and then punch with it. As the lead, it really doesn't matter, does it?

I know some assignors are anal about this -- one college assignor at a camp I went to last year requires his officials to ALWAYS call fouls with the outside hand. Figured he must have a pretty good staff if that's one of his big concerns, which it seemed to be.

you are right on the lead it wouldn't matter....gotta love the consistency among associations with a federation mechanic...the whole inside hand up, opposite punching the other way that i was told is contrary to what you were told...granted that was a college assignor, but still i guarantee there is not consistency in HS even as to how this is being taught...and as JR says sometimes as silly as it is an evaluation could come down to something like that....i am not a state finals caliber official at this point, but would like to be at some point and i would like to develop the correct habit...if i could only find out what the correct habit is