I need some game talk!!!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Do you actually use it? Or just leave it in your pocket?

We've been taught, and continue to be taught, to switch the whistle from pocket to pocket, since 1985, when the alternating possession procedure first started. You would think that the table crews could learn the proper procedure in twenty-three years. We have table crew members who have never, in their entire life, seen more than one jump ball in a four period game, and have never attended a basketball game where there wasn't an arrow at the table.

And here's another opportunity for me to suggest two minor changes in the jump ball procedure. First, do away with the jump ball that starts the game. Second, we do away with the jump ball that starts the extra period. That's all. Just two little changes. Let's start the game with a coin toss, just like in football, and futball. I'll bring the coin. The loser of the toss gets to keep the coin, so everybody walks away happy.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Agreed, but -- the newer official has lots of other (more important) stuff to learn -- so the "training wheels" might be appropriate at that level. After a couple of years, though, the official should learn to remember the arrow.

I have a harder time remembering which side of the school our locker room is in.

Matter of fact, we had no arrow at our scrimmage Saturday and I had every held ball all morning. Not hard to remember. Even when we had none, I remembered which way we went on the tip.