Fiba

[The Canuck]

The coaches in my province, caving in to pressure from Basketball Canada, have voted to have high schools play FIBA rules next year.

As a result, I will now be restricted to enjoying everybody's stories on the forum, and the arguments, and perhaps showing the odd YouTube video.

Many officials feel NFHS is the better route. Hence, all of you are now my idols.

[Adam]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[deecee]

good riddance

[SmokeEater]

Same in Manitoba.

I have now come full circle. I started my officiating career under FIBA rules, went to Fed., then NCAA (with modifications), now back to FIBA. Clinics are going to be fun this summer.

[Kostja]

It is still basketball, after all. The game you love (I hope). And by the way, I would like to have more FIBA related rules talk here on the forum

CU in FIBA land ...

Kostja

[The Canuck]

Originally Posted by SmokeEater

Same in Manitoba.

I have now come full circle. I started my officiating career under FIBA rules, went to Fed., then NCAA (with modifications), now back to FIBA. Clinics are going to be fun this summer.

That's apparently what happened in BC. I started when we were doing modified NCAA but lots of guys have been frustrated by constantly having to learn new rules.

Which rules do you think we ought to play, SmokeEater?

Snaqwells: thank you for your condolences.

deecee: on behalf of everybody else, welcome to the forum

[canuckref]

It looks like fiba will be the rules from coast to coast to coast. I believe the rational is that fiba is the international game, so why would Canada play under U.S. high school and college rules, when we compete rarely against these teams at elite levels, but we do play with fiba rules for Olympic qualifying etc.. I'd be happy to have some fiba threads start here. It can get somewhat confusing reading all this u.s. high school references, but the game is very similar.
Major changes from my point of view include:
24 second shot clock
ball may be legally thrown over the back board
front court inbound must be passed into front court
5 sec. closely guarded can occur in back AND front court
clock is stopped in last two minutes after a made basket
5 seconds to attempt a free throw
technical foul = 2 shots + ball at half court
wide key

I personally find this one kinda of silly: you hold the thumb, index and middle finger to signal three point attempt VS. the pinky, ring and middle in ncaa rules.

If you havent already looked at it, here is the two man fiba referee guide:
http://www.fiba.com/asp_includes/dow...sp?file_id=325

As an aside, I believe there has been much speculation that US Olympic efforts have fallen short recently because of their inability to adapt to fiba play at the international level.

Also see this chart for a comparison of fiba, nba and ncaa rule differences:
http://www.usabasketball.com/rules/rules.html

[SmokeEater]

Originally Posted by The Canuck

Which rules do you think we ought to play, SmokeEater?

Well I think that FIBA makes the most sense in order to be competetive nationally and internationally. It is the easiest to learn and play under as long as all levels of ball adopt it (which is the plan here).

Here is the link I will be using to adapt to the new ruleset. http://www.fibaamericas.com/reglas_us.asp