Is the closed fist optional?

[Back In The Saddle]

The updated signal chart is now on the NFHS web site

http://www.nfhs.org/PDF/Basketball/BBsignals03.pdf

Signal five, the birddog, now shows the word (Optional) under the pointing arm. It isn't immediately clear from the picture, however, that it's only the pointing arm that's optional. So...I'll ask a silly question. If I'm not birddogging on a foul call, I still DO have to raise my fist, don't I? It would cause a lot of confusion, I think, if I didn't.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
If I'm not birddogging on a foul call, I still DO have to raise my fist, don't I?

In a word, yes.

[mick]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett

In a word, yes.

Yeah, it keeps your partner from wonderin'....

[BktBallRef]

BITS, dude, you're thinking too much.

[Nevadaref]

Or smokin' too much!

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally posted by BktBallRef
BITS, dude, you're thinking too much.

Yeah, you're probably right. Only when I looked at the diagram, it really was not obvious that the optional part was just the pointing arm.