Is this common in your neck of the woods?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Hornets222003

Yeah, I was watching a special on NBA TV where the profiled the officials. On almost every inbounds that was shown in the piece, the official was verbalizing the 5 second count along with the hand count.

I think it's just an NBA thing. I've never actually done it during any of my games, but I've always remembered him saying to do it.

I don't know enough about NBA mechanics to doubt you; there are others here that work NBA mechanics regularly (BTaylor) and would know one way or the other. I was surprised someone told you to do it at the high school level, to be honest.