Time Out Mania

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by kbilla

Speaking of spitting the whistle, anybody have any good stories?

Early season game. My partner, the referee, passes on a blocked shot/foul call, at the buzzer, that ended the first period. No complaints from the coach. My partner is at the division line, across from the table, waiting to inbound the ball to start the second poriod. Players start walking onto the court to start the period. I am standing, in front of the above mentioned coach, with the whistle in my mouth, counting players. The coach politely asks me about the call, whether my partner passed, or whether the buzzer came before the foul. I drop the whistle from my mouth to answer the coach, who thanks me for the information. Satisfied that there are the correct ten players on the court, and the clock is set at 8:00, I point to my partner to start the period. Within a few seconds there is an intentional kick in my primary. I blow the whistle for the violation, to find that it's not in my mouth. My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle, and we move on, looking at each other and smilling as we move up the court after the inbounds, after the violation.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle, and we move on, ...

That must be the new one that sounds like a duck.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

That must be the new one that sounds like a duck.

Obviously it wasn't a Dolphin.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle...

The dreaded AFLAC violation?

[Andy]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Early season game. My partner, the referee, passes on a blocked shot/foul call, at the buzzer, that ended the first period. No complaints from the coach. My partner is at the division line, across from the table, waiting to inbound the ball to start the second poriod. Players start walking onto the court to start the period. I am standing, in front of the above mentioned coach, with the whistle in my mouth, counting players. The coach politely asks me about the call, whether my partner passed, or whether the buzzer came before the foul. I drop the whistle from my mouth to answer the coach, who thanks me for the information. Satisfied that there are the correct ten players on the court, and the clock is set at 8:00, I point to my partner to start the period. Within a few seconds there is an intentional kick in my primary. I blow the whistle for the violation, to find that it's not in my mouth. My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle, and we move on, looking at each other and smilling as we move up the court after the inbounds, after the violation.

My story is similar....My first or second year as an official, I'm doing some Saturday afternoon games at the local Boys and Girls Club league. We have a time out and I am talking with the club director about something or the other. Time out ends and I yell some final comments to him as I retreat to my postion as lead on the baseline. Ball is put in play, Team A is passing the ball looking for an opening, team A player drives to the hole and is fouled going up, not hammered, but enough to make the call. My fist goes up and I blow some air....and nobody stops playing....shot is missed, team B rebounds and is off to the other end when I realize that my whistle is hanging around my neck...Oh well...off to the other end. Nobody says a word about the "missed" foul.

[Scrapper1]

In my case, I was the R and had to toss the jump ball. Drive went directly to the basket on my side of the court. As T, I had the foul call. Did the fist, blew out, did the whole thing; except that I never put the whistle back in my mouth after the toss.

[Back In The Saddle]

Have had two unusual situations.

Twice in one game a kick happens right in front of me and I spit out the whistle and shout "KICK!" Then I have to find my whistle and blow it. Have no idea why this happened. Never happened any other time.

JVB early this season, only a few seconds remaining in a 1 point game. H is pressing and ties up the ball in back court. I blow my whistle and signal jump ball. Suddenly my partner comes across the floor tweet-tweeting. V coach had requested a time out. But my partner had not entirely broken the football habit of not having his whistle in his mouth. We granted the TO, but H coach wasn't happy about it.

[DonInKansas]

I think I shared this earlier, but here's mine:

It's my first year this year: JHB, I'm administering a throw-in after a timeout. Defender breaks the plane of the OOB line and whacks the thrower on the arm. I get my fist up and go to blow the whistle and....pthuh. No sound except my whistle banging against my shirt. My partner blew his whistle for it, chuckling down the court as he reported it. Coach asked why he was making that (obvious) call from so far away; you could her the slap from a mile away.

[BillyMac]

First a thread appears about spitting out a whistle, and then it happens to me last night.

Girls varsity game. Four minutes left. White is down by about ten points. White coach takes a time out, probably to tell her players to foul Blue, to stop the clock. Blue brings ball into the front court in my primary, and White reaches in, slapping Blue on the wrist. I try to blow my whistle to call a common foul, but I spit out my whistle, the first time that I can remember doing that in many, many, many, years, although it might have something to do with a recent change from several years of using the Mini Fox whistle to now using the regular Fox 40 whistle. White "hacks" on Blue's wrist at least twice more before I have time to get the whistle in my mouth to blow it for the common foul. The Blue player looks at me like "Why are you letting them beat me up?" and I explain to her that I split my whistle out and couldn't blow it fast enough to stop the additional fouls. She nods and smiles at me.

Here's the kicker. On the next Blue possession, White must have figured out that they "really" have to foul Blue for me to blow my whistle, so White grabs Blue by the jersey. Other than reaching across a boundary to foul an inbounder, there are only a few "automatic" intentional fouls that I call, the "bear hug" foul, the "grabbing the jersey" foul, and the "two handed push from behind" foul, because these are not "basketball plays", so I call an intentional foul on White. The White coach doesn't like my call, and I felt badly because I'm sure that the intentional foul wouldn't have occurred if I had not spit out my whistle on the first foul, but intentional was the call.

My partner said that I could have passed on the intentional, knowing that I was partly to blame. Comments?

[Back In The Saddle]

In this case, I'd agree with your partner.