Basketball help

[icallfouls]

Originally Posted by And-1

I have been doing some rec ball lately and several times my partner and I have forgotten who is shooting. especially on a bonus situation.

What do you guys suggest I can do to help fix this problem. I have look in the rule books for proper mechanic or procedure of what to do after blowing a whistle on a foul call. Unfortunately, I can not find any section that teaches the proper procedure after blowing whistle on a foul call for both shooting and non-shooting.

So my question is what should we do after the whistle is blown for a foul call (shooting & non-shooting)?

I dont have my officials manual at the moment, but I believe that there is a procedure something along the lines of:

Whistle, state the foul, state the consequence, state the restart.

In other words, color, #, foul, consequence - at the spot. If you communicate properly you and your partner(s) should know what happens next.

For example - at the spot - red, 32, hold, 55 white shoots 2 ....

I try to make eye contact with my partner while stating this. No problems.

[JetMetFan]

*Slow down (as was already mentioned).
*Follow the NFHS officiating manual, which calls for you to give the color/number of the player who commited the foul at the spot. Get onto Arbiter's NFHS site and watch the training videos.
*Remind yourself constantly after one or both teams has six fouls that the next foul will be shots, unless it's a TC. That way you burn it into your head to find the shooter.
*When you find the shooter, say his/her number loud and proud. You'll remember, your partner will hear you and so will everyone else. If you yell out "15 white is the shooter!" the chance that 32 white walks to the line should be reduced.