New Rules
Points of Emphasis
Game Management
Rough Play
- Advantage or disadvantage
- Freedom of movement
- Patient whistle
- Call the obvious
- Don’t bail out offensive player—verticality
- Incidental contact vs legitimate contact
Clock Management
- Responsibility on every whistle
- Under a minute
- Initial starting
Communication
- Eye contact with partners
- Verbally and visually confirm # of free throws
- Get shooter on partner’s fouls
- Know bonus 1 and 1 or double
- Come together on unusual plays,
Discuss, get it right!
Coaches
- Acknowledge questions, not statements
- Respond
Special Areas of Interest
- Fighting- players, bench ramifications
- Correctable errors
Mechanics
- Lead, trail, and center positioning
- Primary area of coverage
- Trouble spots
- Stay with shooter in your area
- Rebounding coverage
- Don’t bail out
- Double whistles
- Trust partner
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Game Protocol
Bench Decorum
- Coaches must stay in coaching box
- Deal with out-of-control coach
- Assistant coaches may not address officials
Game Expectations
- Potential problems
- Key players
- Style of play
- Game management concerns
Table Personnel
- Eye contact
- Number of horns
- Errors notify immediately
- New Rules
Post Game
- Leave with partners
- Review game, unusual situations, missed calls, etc.
- Contact supervisors with anything odd
- Obtain tape, if possible
Final Thoughts
- Stay in Primary
- If a call need to be made for the good of the game GET IT!
- Let partner live and die with call in their primary
- Consistency
- Same play, same call
- Let play stare, develop, finish, then decision
- Referee the Defense
Communicate
- With partners, table, coaches, players
- Hustle
- Get angle to see the play
- Take care of business
HAVE FUN!
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