Whistle upon taking the court pregame

[Splute]

I had an official tell me that when you and your partner take the floor, you are supposed to blow your whistle. I was told it is in the officials manual, but have not been able to locate it. Is this standard practice?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Splute

Is this standard practice?

Not where I work games.

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by Splute

I had an official tell me that when you and your partner take the floor, you are supposed to blow your whistle. I was told it is in the officials manual, but have not been able to locate it. Is this standard practice?

Are you officiating games in a parade?

[Splute]

I thought it sounded pretty odd. I really do not want to bring any attention to myself when I walk on the floor. But since he mentioned it was in the book, I thought I would ask. I am still looking, but it wasnt under pregame duties.....

[Texref]

It's fairly common in the DFW area. I was told that we do it to help prevent the pregame T for dunking the ball.

[fullor30]

With all due respect, that's one of the oddest things I've read here.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by fullor30

With all due respect, that's one of the oddest things I've read here.

That's only because you're new here. This will pale by comparison to some of the stuff you're likely to read about during the season!

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by fullor30

With all due respect, that's one of the oddest things I've read here.

Just do a search of Padgett's posts. You'll find about 500 odder things than that.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Just do a search of Padgett's posts. You'll find about 500 odder things than that.

You trying to scare fullor off, Scrappy?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Just do a search of Padgett's posts. You'll find about 500 odder things than that.

I was working a middle school tournament in Beaverton and we had teams from all up and down the west coast, including British Columbia. Before one of their games, I told the scorer (a volunteer mom) that since we had a team from Canada we were playing international rules and she had to keep score in metric. She asked what that meant. I told her that every time a team scored a point, she had to credit them with 1.47 points. I said, "they gave you a calculator, didn't they?" She froze, then said, "I'd better get my husband." My partner was cracking up and I told her I was just joking. She said, "I'd better get him anyway."

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Texref

It's fairly common in the DFW area. I was told that we do it to help prevent the pregame T for dunking the ball.

Another great method to prevent this is for the coaches to teach their kids not to dunk during warmups.

[rockyroad]

Next time someone pulls something like this right out of their arse, ask THEM to show it to you in the book. When they conveniently tell you that they don't have their books with them, pull your books out and hand them to the guy...that's what Bhuck Elics would do.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Next time someone pulls something like this right out of their arse, ask THEM to show it to you in the book. When they conveniently tell you that they don't have their books with them, pull your books out and hand them to the guy...that's what Bhuck Elics would do.

You're enjoying this, aintchya?

[Indianaref]

Almost sounds like a joke. Which got me to thinking, has anyone ever been the recipient or masterminded a joke on some other official. Such as baby powder in the whistle, etc....

[FrankHtown]

Yeah, it's done here in Houston also. The intent is to make the players aware the officials are entering the visual confines of the court, so if they are dunking they will stop. And the boys are even worse.