According to the NFHS official's manual, the administering official that is resuming play shall blow the whistle in three instances. After a charged time-out, to start a quarter or half, and after a long delay. Knowing this, here's my question.

How many of you blow the whistle when we are resuming play with FTs after a time-out? The mechanic I use is step in, signal the number of throws, hit my whistle and then bounce the ball to the shooter. Do you guys follow this same routine or do you do something different?

I'm looking forward to your responses.

Good question.
 

I never blow a whistle in this instance. To me everyone realizes when the play is going to start. This is not like a throw in where all the players are all over the court. Usually most of the players, if not all are in one end of the court and cannot move until the ball is being shot. So I never do this and do not know anyone else that does. But maybe this is one of those cases that I am not doing the right thing. Good question.

Peace

I do not blow my whistle when resuming with FT either, but do in the other Situations.

I don't either, but that is a great question.

If either team has not responded to the horn, we use our standard resuming play procedure. We would blow the whistle, count 2 seconds, blow the whistle again, and then bounce the ball to the FT shooter if the defense is notresponding or put it on the FT line if the offense is not responding.

But otherwise, no, we don't blow the whistle.

I blow the whistle, indicate the number of throws, then bounce the ball to the shooter. The manual says that we should blow the whistle there, and I really haven't come up with a good enough reason to ignore the manual. IMO, it doesn't hurt anything to give a quick blast, while possibly covering the whistle with a hand to muffle the sound (and keep from scaring the hell out of the players in the lane).

Is this a procedure your association uses or are you basing this on a NF document?

I don't blow the whistle before administering FTs. Watched a guy the other night that blew his whistle every single time he game the ball to a player -- after every violation, every foul, every stoppage. Wanted to walk out of the stands and steal his whistle.

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Actually, the manual specifically states that the whistle shall be blown 1) before the jump ball (pg 27), 2) following a time-out after second horn (pg 44), 3) resuming play after an intermission between quarters (pg 44). On page 30 it sums it up 220: The administering official shall sound the whistle to indicate play is about to begin only following a charged time-out, an intermission or an unusual delay (perhaps an injured cheerleader sprawled on the court). If we should blow the whistle before free-throws after a time-out, it would be clearly stated, as in the other examples.

Anyway, we don't blow the whistle in this situation.

But isn't this situation beginning play after a charged time-out?

I agree - it seems a bit odd. I might try it tomorrow night just to get a bit better feel of exactly how it works, though.

BigDave,
I use the whistle for the purpose of getting the players' attention.
If I've got everyone lined up where they want to be, I need no whistle to call attention to myself.
During dead balls I blow as little as possible. I even like to try to beckon subs before the buzzer. ;)
mick

That's the resuming play procedure we use in NC.

We have no such procedure, but I have to tell ya, I've been using your two-count for about a year, and although I haven't set the ball on the deck yet, there must be something in the tone of my Fox that tells 'em I will, cuz I have yet to have any team ignore my second *Tweet!!!*
Thanks, Tony.

We had our first one in about 3 years about a week ago. It was a game between two private schools. The defensive team didn't respond and after the two count and the second whistle, my partner toss the ball to the thrower. East bsket.

Coach never howled a word. ;)