First Tech

[jdub]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

My anecdotal experience is that it's better if the sign is given fairly close to the official's body. That is, keep the upper arm close to the chest -- the elbow perhaps 2-3" away from the chest and extend just the forearm. Also, keep the hand sort of relaxed / curled. That's interpreted as "okay, i've heard you, we need to move on one way or another."

If the whole arm is extended and the hand is tense, it's interpreted as "STFU."

I think the former also helps calm the official, while the latter just gets you primed to jump on the next comment.

I really like this idea of not extending the arm. Simple but it changes it completely. I called a technical in a Girls 7th/8th grade game (why oh why did I let myself do MS) this past week and the stop sign was more a formality.

I was Lead, tableside, nearest the later ejected coach. He took exception to a traveling call on his player and came onto the court, nearby me on the endline to complain. I gave him the stop sign and told him "You need to go back to your bench." He said "If you missed that call, you don't deserve to be an official." Whack.

Partner then ejected him as we were administering free throws, when he came out of his seat and to the scorers table to continue to yell, after partner told him to be seated calm down.

Middle school......