hand whistle for basketball?

[ballsandstrikes]

Well one of the "crawl under a rock" moments in officiating happened to me. My smitty broke in the middle of a game. Now mind you I keep about 10 whistles in my bag but only had one smitty. So I had a choice. Try and keep a regular whistle in my mouth or pull out my soccer whistle and put it on my left hand. I chose the soccer whistle and while it felt a bit awkward at first, it really worked without a hitch. So I pose for thought, why not?
P.S. I live 10 minutes from Honigs and am on my way to buy 4 more smittys lol.