Defender counting out loud during inbound

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by twing1115

I started out as a college assistant for 5 years and am currently coaching high school. I got this idea after attending a coaching clinic hosted by the late Skip Prosser at Wake Forest when he was speaking about his full court pressure philosophy. When my local official respectfully told me that I could not do this following half time I respectfully asked him why and we simply chatted for a minute. I told my guys to stop and they did. Would it change anything if prior to the game I adressed this with the officail and told them my intent. Personally my feeling is that an official shouln't worry about looking like an azzhole to the crowd. Remember I am an umpire and have taken a ton of you know what when calling balls and strikes from the crowd and never once has it bothered me or influenced the way I make calls.

The way I look at it: Your team is allowed to act like your team (making defensive calls when on defense and offensive calls when on offense). You wouldn't be allowed to, for example, have one of your players stand near the opposing bench and call "motion" when your team was on defense, or have one of your players yell "screen right" to the opposing point guard when your point guard was bringing the ball up the court (and took advantage of the hedging move the other guard made when hearing the call).

Nor are you allowed to make official calls. Yes, sometime you (or many) call "3 seconds" or "5 seconds" or "travel." But, if those calls are all the time, they get shut down, too.