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IAABO Memo-Nov.08
To All IAABO Interpreters/Trainers
The majority of areas served by IAABO Boards begin the season this week. It is suggested that consideration be given to sharing parts or all of the attached memo with your membership. It may serve officials as a supplemental pre-season preparation/review instrument.
Points of Emphasis – Rules Needing Attention - Reminders
Uniforms
Officials must enforce the rules to continue to improve compliance.
Uniform rules are in place for a reason.
Officials must also continue to enforce the penalty for uniforms not being worn properly - direct players to leave the game or don’t allow entry.
Warnings are not a consideration. “Coach, there is a uniform issue with #14, a substitute is needed.” Enforcement a must, it will eliminate the issue.
Items of specific concern:
1) Jersey not tucked in
2) Pants not on waist
3) Illegal head/wristbands (color, logo, size)
4) Illegal undershirts (visible logo, color, hems)
5) Undergarments (color, above knee)
Play cannot be stopped to address uniform issues. When the ball is dead, after all reporting duties are completed, after officials have assumed throw-in or free throw positions and the ball is ready to be placed in play – if the player has not addressed the issue there must be a replacement.
Rough Play
The concern applies to both the offense and the defense.
Keys – displacement; bumping cutters; backing down opponent; allowing offensive and defensive player freedom of movement is a MUST.
Defenders are not permitted to have hands on the ball handler/dribbler or other offensive players away from the ball
Offensive players are not permitted to use hands or body to push off to create space.
Contact is NOT incidental.
A foul must be ruled, regardless of where it happens on the court, when a player:
Continuously places a hand on an opponent
Places two hands on an opponent
Continuously jabs a hand or forearm on an opponent.
Loose-ball situation is not consent for jumping on an opponent to create a held ball.
“Going for the ball” is not permission to take out or displace an opponent who is in a more advantageous position.
Incidental contact is permitted when players are in equally favorable positions.
Time-out & Interval of Time
Upon recognizing a request for time-out, officials must verify the status of the ball prior to granting the time-out.
Officials must ensure:
Player control has been obtained during live-ball situations before granting a time-out.
Request is coming from a player or the head coach.
Maintaining composure, granting a time out is not something to get emphatic about.
Interval of time is not a time-out and can not be treated as a time-out by coaches or officials.
Disqualification, blood issues, injury – all bench personnel, etc. must remain seated.
Slapping the Backboard (Illegally)
Officials must determine if the act is:
Unintentional – part of a legitimate attempt to block a try for goal = legal.
Intentional – frustration or drawing attention to him/herself = technical foul.
Slapping the backboard is becoming ‘a thing to do’, eliminate it.
Mechanics and Signals
Communication and consistency are most important elements of officiating.
Use only approved mechanics and signals to:
Effectively cover the court & players with individual primary c overage areas.
Improve the crew’s coverage when possible – broaden and lengthen field of vision cone.
Effectively communicate with partners – eye contact at every opportunity is a must.
Provide immediate feed back to players, coaches, score, timer, fans and media.
Signals are used to communicate – not to draw attention to the official.
Use of unauthorized signals can confuse because meaning may not be known.
Signals should be given in a calm, controlled, professional manner – not “hit and run”
Uniformity in mechanics and signaling is essential to promote consistency and communication from one game site to another.
Rules Areas Needing Attention
Closely guarded – apply the rule, it in place until the defender is ‘beaten’; simply progressing toward the basket area does not end a closely guarded count; care, it matters to both teams.
Contact – there is, by rule, legal (incidental) and illegal contact; contact that does not help the offense or defense effort and contact that does not harm the offense or defense effort is incidental and therefore legal.
Free throw lane line and restrictions – the foot may not break the outside plane of the free throw lane line until the ball contacts the backboard or ring – don’t quit lane line coverage upon the release of the ball by the free thrower - care, it matters to both teams!
Palming – rather than think of palming, realize that the dribble ends when the ball comes to rest in or on a hand, to then push or bat the ball to the floor constitutes the beginning of another dribble = illegal (double dribble).
Substitution – apply the rule; when the administering official is ready to place the ball in play for throw-in or free throw, it is too late to admit substitutes, don’t delay the game; the off official(s) cannot be careless in such situations; care, it matters to both teams.
Traveling – locate/identify the pivot foot (left, left, left); at end of jump stop (jumping off one foot and landing on two) remain focused to attend to a foot that is lifted and replaced on the floor.
Guarding & Block/Charge – obtain legal guarding position; then may=2 0maintain what has been obtained until ‘beaten’; time and distance are factors when the offensive player does not have the ball; time and distance are not factors when the offensive player is stationary and/or has control of the ball; a defensive player has a rule given right to counter moving by the offensive player – both may jump or move to play. The defender does not need to be stationary or set upon contact.
Continuous Motion – only applies when the foul is committed by the defense; an offensive player has a rule given right to try for a goal anytime, anyhow and anywhere he or she chooses provided it is done legally; the only way the try can be stopped is via a legally blocked try; the whistle sounding and the official signaling the timer to stop the clock has no affect upon the try; simply stated, the clock is stopped and the ball remains live until the try is completed successfully or unsuccessfully. Don’t be careless and cancel a legal try for goal. A majority of the fouls ruled in a game involve continuous motion/try for goal. Mastery of the rule is a MUST! – care, it matters!
Reminders
Officials do make mistakes but there is no excuse for not knowing the rules.
Officials can’t enforce rules that they don’t know.
Enforce the rules, the players and coaches will adjust.
Enforce the rules with no regard to time and score.
Sportsmanship and behavior – there is no room for an individual official’s level of tolerance.
Sportsmanship is not an enemy of competition or success.
Enforcing sportsmanship is not an enemy of successful officiating.
The official’s role is to expect compliance and not condone non-compliance.
Using approved signals is not an enemy of officiating and making accurate rulings.
All players, by rule, must be allowed freedom of movement –no hands; no arm bars; no bumping; no backing down; no displacement.
When time or situation permits communication with a coach –listen; be courteous; care; very seldom initiate conversation; move on.
What happens in the gym/arena, stays in the gym/arena – don’t gossip; be professional.
Officiate with the same attention as when you are watching a video replay.
Quit looking for things to replace the rules – no other version of the rules is acceptable.
The rules are the master plan to assure fair play and consistency. Don’t fight the rules.
Consistency begins with knowing and enforcing the rules.
Realize that as an official, you are part of the education process!!
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IAABO Memo-Dec.08
“To & From” the Desk of IAABO Coordinator of Interpreters/Trainers # 1 - 08/09
Boards, Interpreters and Officials must not be content. Professional improvement objectives must be identified and the membership must be charged with working toward meeting those objectives.
We must learn/recognize our shortcomings prior to improving. Like a team, if it can’t learn why/how it loses it can’t learn how to win.
Boards, Interpreters and the individual official are not allowed to have ‘attitudes’ toward rules, rules enforcement, mechanics and signals. If such ‘attitudes’ exist we must work at changing them.
Rules are, by design, in place to provide a balance between defense and offense; between big and small; between weak and strong. Only team and individual preparation along with individual skills should be the prevailing factors. An individual official or crew is
not allowed to have their own tolerance level for behavior, contact, etc. The question is, does tolerance favor compliance or non-compliance? Non-compliance is not a consideration.
Consistency (what is and what is not allowed) – eliminate inconsistency! It is an easy task to eliminate inconsistency, Be Consistent! Consistency begins with knowing and enforcing the rules of the game. Does the crew lay good groundwork for the crew that
follows it to the same game site?
What an official does not enforce, he/she encourages. Enforce all of the rules, it matters and it matters to BOTH teams.
Boards and individual officials, when they accept game assignments, must realize that they are part of the education process. We are working for the schools. The schools have expectations of the coaches, the players, the spectators and it is vital that officials assist the schools in meeting the expectations. Those expectations include, overall compliance, positive sportsmanship along with respect for the school, the uniform, the game, the rules, the opponent, the public and the officials.
Refresher Exam Revisions: #1Yes; #40 No; # 43 Yes; # 49 No; #55 Yes; #73 No
NFHS: Case Book page11; 2.10.1 G (d), as is it is inaccurate; the ruling was accurate prior to POI being include within the rules; by rule, there is no player control during a throw-in, therefore 4.36.2 (c) would apply. NFHS has been notified and is in agreement.
NFHS: Case Book page 30; 4.19.9 B
First, the play should indicate where/location of the foul by A-1. Secondly, if the foul is committed where the ensuing throw-in would be at the endline, the Team B thrower-in would have the option to move along the endline – it would not be a designated spot throw-in. NFHS has been notified and is in agreement.
OTHER
A-5 is fouled and is too injured to attempt the free throw. Team A coach selects A-6 to replace A-5. A-6 is beckoned and enters the court. Prior to A-6 entering the free throw semi-circle, A-7 reports to replace A-6. The official denies the substitution. Is the official correct?
Ruling: No. A player may always be replaced during a substitution opportunity even in the player being replaced just entered the game.
A-1 has the ball out of bounds for a throw-in when the timer erroneously starts the clock and it runs for two seconds. The official notices that the clock is running and stops play.
As the official is at the scorer and timer table, B-6 reports to replace B-5. The official orders the time corrected and allow B-6 to enter the game. Is the official’s ruling correct?
Ruling: Yes. Substitutions are permitted during any dead ball period with the clock stopped.
With three-tenths of a second remaining in the game, A-1’s throw-in is caught by A-2, who is fouled as he/she catches and throws the ball toward his/her basket. The foul occurs prior to the signal/horn sounds indicating that time has expired. Team A is in the one and one bonus. The official awards A-1 a one and one. Is the official correct?
Ruling: Yes. Case Book 5.2.5
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