Handling the ball for 1-and-1 administration?

[MelbRef]

What do you do with the ball when administering a 1-and-1?

What I've seen:
- hold ball in hands with index fingers extended
- same as above, ball between wrists
- bounce the ball, signal 1-and-1, catch ball
- hold ball under one arm/elbow, signal 1-and-1

What is "correct"?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by MelbRef

What do you do with the ball when administering a 1-and-1?

What I've seen:
- hold ball in hands with index fingers extended
- same as above, ball between wrists
- bounce the ball, signal 1-and-1, catch ball
- hold ball under one arm/elbow, signal 1-and-1

What is "correct"?

I do the first. Quite frankly, it doesn't really matter.

[JugglingReferee]

Between wrists.

[stiffler3492]

I usually verbalize, loudly, "1 and 1" while holding the ball.

[BktBallRef]

"1 & 1!" Bounce the ball and signal as the ball is enroute.

It makes no difference because there's always going to be at least one player who turns and asks, "How many, ref?"

[referee99]

... and pinkies extended.

[Loudwhistle2]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I do the first. Quite frankly, it doesn't really matter.

+1 and say one and one!

[Freddy]

For the sake of clarity, and to avoid having a correctible error, I'm accustomed to always "paint the inner walls of the three-sided room." With ball between wrists, index finger upward, I say "one and one" to the players opposite table, then to the shooter, then to the players tableside. By this time both partners and the table have seen what I'm administering, offering at least three redundant opportunities for me to peer check the number of free throws. Each partner and the table flash back the number of throws.
Redundant, but effective.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by MelbRef

What do you do with the ball when administering a 1-and-1?

What I've seen:
- hold ball in hands with index fingers extended
- same as above, ball between wrists
- bounce the ball, signal 1-and-1, catch ball
- hold ball under one arm/elbow, signal 1-and-1

What is "correct"?

You should really ask your interpreter and/or assignor how they want it done--or if they even care.

[Scrapper1]

I worked with a guy this year who did something I'd never seen before. He held the ball in one hand and then with the other hand, he pointed with one finger to one end of the free throw line and then the other end of the free throw line, while saying the "one-and-one". I thought it looked interesting, but it's nowhere near the "correct" mechanic.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I worked with a guy this year who did something I'd never seen before. He held the ball in one hand and then with the other hand, he pointed with one finger to one end of the free throw line and then the other end of the free throw line, while saying the "one-and-one". I thought it looked interesting, but it's nowhere near the "correct" mechanic.

Hmmm. May as well use the "hook 'em horns" or "hang ten" signals.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Hmmm. May as well use the "hook 'em horns" or "hang ten" signals.

Which is what I do. But I rotate my hand back and forth a couple times when doing it.

[chymechowder]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Hmmm. May as well use the "hook 'em horns" or "hang ten" signals.

You mean the Ronnie James Dio signal.

[Adam]

Who?