Olympic hoops officiating

[Adam]

Originally Posted by SmokeEater

International Officials are all required to speak English. I don't know why this is a requirement

If I had to guess, I'd say this is the reason:

Originally Posted by SmokeEater

My mentor went to referee in a few international events in Europe and did Womens games in Seoul and he told me it made working alot easier.

[BktBallRef]

I'm not sure they're used to the quickness of the NBA players. Yes, NBA players travel and it's not called in the NBA. i expected to see some of those alls. But I've also seen a couple that were called that simply weren't traveling.