crowd whistle
 

NFHS 2 person

10 seconds before halftime, A1 is dribbling the ball in the backcourt heading for his frontcourt. Whistle sounds. I'm thinking a coach must have called for a timeout. I look at my partner. He looks at me. A1 picks up his dribble, walks towards me to hand me the ball.
Turns out someone in the crowd blew a very convincing whistle. How do you proceed? i think the whistle came from the home crowd, but am not sure.

I'd give team A the ball back and immediately get with game management to handle the situation.

Sounds good to me. Team B will holler for a travel, but everyone is clearly confused.

Not a lot you can do if you did not see who it was other than have game management watch the section you think it came from.

+1. Sometimes ya just gotta officiate.

I think the question is more towards how do you resume play not what to do about the crowd.

[Agitator]T up the crowd.[/Agitator]

And one to the home team for failing to control the crowd.

Say it sounds like the whistle came from the bench areas so T up both benches. That way the coaches have to sit down and shut up. :D

Had a "similar" event last night....

A3 has the ball in the corner and starts to drive along the endline.....

Something that sounds like a odd whistle sounds. I'm puzzled, my partner is puzzled, the players react.....1/2 of them stop playing. The shooter takes another dribble or two and pulls up with a lazy toss at the basket. B rebounds that ball.

It was the fire alarm.

Hmm......what to do. The ball isn't technically dead but it did resemble a whistle and the players reacted as if it was.

We declared the ball dead at the time of the sound and gave it back to A where they were when the sound occurred.

B wasn't too happy about it.

There is a private school just across the state line in that State Up North. We officials referred to it as an outlaw school because it did not belong to the MichiganHSAA and therefore could do just about anything is pleased and its Prinicpal/Athletic Director could be (no wait, he was) a real horse's a$$ (wait, that is insulting to the horse my wife and I owned for the first 15 years we were married), but I digress.

Years and years ago, I was officiating a game in the school's Christmas Tournament between a school from Pennsylvania and a school of Indiana. Mid-way through the second quarter Team I's PG was CG while dribbling the ball at tjhe top of the key in their front court (I was T Table Side), when a whistle sounded from behind me in the direction of Team I's Bench. At the sound of the whistle all of Team P's players stopped and Team I's PG blew by his defender and I immediately blew the ball dead. I-HC immediately wanted to know why I blew the ball dead. I told him that a whistle from the stands sounded and that put Team P's players at a disadvantge. He then he tells me that the whistle sound was made by him (one finger from each hand in his mouth) to signal which play for his players to run and that he does it all of the time. My immediate response: WHACK!!!

MTD, Sr.

Use an assistant coach to smother the flames.

Why am I drinking coffee while reading this board today? That's a good use for an assistant.

Is that one shot for each spectator?