My officials won't blow their whistle

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Chess Ref

When I first started I had the no whistle thingie. I was so focused on ADV/DIS that I called nothing , which made sense cause I didn't know how to apply ADV/DIS was on a BB court. Somewhere somebody told me to call ALL contact till it was painful and then I would figure out what contact was really a foul. It took me about, if I remember correctly, about 2 quarters.

I work with alot of brand new officials and just had a total new man. No rec,no adult, no nothing. I told him,in the 2nd qtr, to call all contact he saw. It seemed to help by the 4th he was calling the obvious, which was so much better than his 1st Qtr of no whistles.....

You mean, maybe my suggestion was a good one?? Wowee!

But seriously, a teacher/trainer will save the learners a lot of pain if they set this up in a scrimmage where the players also know what's going on, and have something to gain from it. It never hurts players to consciously work on having no contact, and it's best to do it when there's not a game on the line.

[IREFU2]

Originally Posted by SanSmoothie

Any advice on how to encourage my youth basketball officials to blow their whistles? I have a few that are a little bit gun shy.

Most new officials have this problem due to the fact that they cant seem to tell what a foul may or may not be. The best thing to do is get them in a scrimmage and have an official run with them and tell them to blow the whistle. Once they get use to the contact, then they will be sort of comfortable. This is what was done for me when I got started. Have then just concentrate on blowing the whistle and nothing else. Just my 2 cents worth.