Baseline or Endline (Survey here)

[CaRef5]

I say end-line


and another thing that gets me is when my partner says
"no basket the foul is...

ON THE FLOOR" [all the while pointing down]

i just say to myself (isnt every foul we call "on the floor")

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by CaRef5

I say end-line


and another thing that gets me is when my partner says
"no basket the foul is...

ON THE FLOOR" [all the while pointing down]

i just say to myself (isnt every foul we call "on the floor")

Well, technically, a foul (assuming the foul to be a personal foul) actually has to be on a player. The floor is probably not in the book.

[CMHCoachNRef]

By Rule, it is the "end line", however, to just about everyone else, it is the "baseline." I have yet to hear a coach yell, "don't let him get endline." Therefore, when talking to fellow officials, it is the "end line." When communicating to a coach, I typically speak his language in the case. If he asks if the ball is on the "baseline", I say, "yes." Of course, within a few seconds either one of my partners or I will be at that spot along the "end line" (mostly referees on the forum), or just inside it if the team gets to run the baseline -- I mean end line.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

Well, technically, a foul (assuming the foul to be a personal foul) actually has to be on a player. The floor is probably not in the book.

I had a partner once call so many fouls "on the floor" that the floor fouled out. The best part was watching him make a signal to the table of an "F" with his fingers every time he called it.