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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 12:39pm
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Foul Reporting Mechanics Question

I know I'm being extra critical on myself, but that's what we're all on this forum for! This has been something that I've tried to work on for a while. I'm wondering what all of you do in this sitch:

I have a foul on A14. I go up to report the foul and this is what I say:

"White. Four (as I hold up the 1) ... -teen (as I hold up the 4). (I make my push call) Two shots."

My question is to all of you: Do you try and make the "Fourteen" sound together or do you separate it like I seem to always do? I think it sounds confusing if I would be sitting at the table and seeing the ref say "four" and hold up only one finger (the index finger, I'm not giving the table the bird, haha).

Also, do some of you say, "Fourteen. One. Four" as you are reporting? I think this might be confusing to the table as well.
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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 12:43pm
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I think to say "fourteen" and try to get both the one and the four out on my fingers while saying"fourteen."
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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 12:44pm
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"White"

"One-Four" (With one finger, followed by four fingers)

"Push"

"2 shots"
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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 12:49pm
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I do not like the numbers with "teen" in them. I say each number separately and I have never had a problem with anyone understanding what I say with each number given separately.

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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 12:56pm
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I say fourteen, twelve, or thirty-five and signal the numbers with one hand. I don't make an effort to pause or artificially stress the two different syllables.

I know plenty of officials who say one-four, one-two, or three-five.

I just don't care for it as I don't believe that three-five is a number.
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It is simply a case of personal preference...whatever works for you as long as you communicate clearly with the table.
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I'm redundant. fourteen white, one, four, white, push. two shots. I used to say " i have a foul on ", but I dropped that because that's why I'm there reporting in the first place, right.
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I'm I used to say " i have a foul on ", but I dropped that because that's why I'm there reporting in the first place, right.
I used to say "I've got" - however, my butt was chewed several times by evaluators and I overcame that bad habit......imagine that!?

FWIW - "Blue, one, four, hold. Two-shots."
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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 01:48pm
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I'm redundant. fourteen white, one, four, white, push. two shots.
You should pick one or the other, but stop saying both.
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"White"

"One-Four"

mechanic only- no verbal- push

"2", but if its really loud, just 2 fingers.


Followed by, on occasion-

"Yes coach, he was shooting" or
"no coach, he didn't travel" or
"Yes coach, we'll call it on your end too- it's only 15 seconds into the game"
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