Incorrect spot by partner

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by KJUmp

Rookie here. Can some of you vets give us a quickie primer on correct spots? I have my first classroom session tomorrow night (the start of a two year process) to get my IAABO high school certification.

Check page 43 (or so, I have a 2007-08 book right now, your's may be newer) in the IAABO Crew of Two Basketball Officials Manual.

Or, imagine a diagram of the court. Lines go from each "elbow" to each endline/sideline corner. The two triangles formed by these lines, the endline, and the lane lines, and the lane itself, and the semicircle above the foul line, are all areas where the nearest spot has to be on the endline. Everything else in the frontcourt has to go the nearest spot on the sideline.

The "comfortable" spots some are referring to, are when the ball is to be put in play under the basket. Some lead officials will put the ball in play on the lane line side so that the trail doesn't have to rotate over to the other side of the trail position, rather than put the ball in play on the lane line side closest to the spot of the violation, foul, or point of interruption, forcing his partner, as the trail, to rotate to the other side of the trail position, as the rules, and proper mechanics dictate. As a rookie, don't start developing bad habits like this.

(Who's old enough to remember when, if a foul shot that went in didn't count due to an offensive violation, the ball was put in play on the sideline, free throw line extended? I bet not many of us.)