Auteur: officiatingscool

What can you do to make sure that the third team on the court is the best team?? Our friends at the University of Basketball Officials had a great #websession on that topic and we love sharing it with you guys!! The preparation for your next game starts today! Lees “Making the third team the best team” verder

A little refresher on this sunday morning. Let’s dive into the Ball returned to backcourt violation with this great video by Referee University. Lees “Fiba rules explained: backcourt violation” verder

Europe’s premier lady referee Jasmina Juras from Serbia will head the crew that is nominated for todays second semifinal in Euroleague Women in Istanbul. She will team up with Ventsislav Velikov from Bulgaria and Martin Velic from Croatia. Tipoff at 20.00. Lees “Jasmina Juras crewchief in second semifinal ELW #livestreamalert” verder

German FIBAref Carsten Straube is the crewchief for the first semifinal of today in the Euroleague Women Bubble in Istanbul. He will throw the tip at 15.00 today. His collegues are Manuel Attard from Italy and Gatis Salins from Latvia. The stream will be available down below Lees “Straube crewchief in ELW semifinal #livestreamalert” verder

Let’s get back on track here! We’ve been away from office for a short break. As our own personal season was put on hold in october last year we were lacking some inspiration, but let’s believe in the good that the future brings and bring back some nice situations. Here we have a nice clip from our man Sam Subby. What will you call? Lees “We are back! What is your call?” verder

There’s another referee in our community that will see action tonight. Frenchmen Valentin Oliot (far right in the picture) will feature in the second game in den Bosch tonight. He will be accompanied by Russian Sergey Mikhailov and serbian Vladimir Jevtovic. Commisionar is Juris Kokainis from Latvia. Arged BMSLAM Stal will take on the hosts of the bubble: New Heroes den Bosch. Stream is down here to be found. Lees “Valentin Oliot live in den Bosch 20h05” verder

French coming star Maxime Boubert is lacing up his peaks today in den Bosch for the Europecup round of 16 battle between Promotey and Belfius Mons-Hainaut. He will team up with Gintaras Vitkauskas from Lithuania and Goran Sljivic from Austria. Commissionar for this match that will tip off at 17.00 Amsterdam time and can be seen down below will be Juris Kokainis. Lees “Maxime Boubert live in action today at 17.00” verder

Sometimes stuff on our courts is happening so fast that one might wonder: ‘What did I just witness?’. With the great honour of wearing a whistle comes great responsability too. We have to understand what we’ve seen and act accordingly. So picture this situation and see what you would do? Lees “Do you whistle or do you not?” verder

We all know that the semi cirkel we call the threepointline is an important part of the court right? We stumbled upon a very nice clip that will amaze you. Hit us with your own version of this play and tell us how many tries it took you to record it 😉
Since we are targeting referees here we also have a nice question: Do you count this score and how many points will you award if this happens in your game?

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