Officiating's Cool

It almost sounds like the backing vocals of a 50’s doo wop a capella group: Block Charge flop? The clipper we thank is once again Sam the Great Subby. We’re talking about the most recent edition of FIBA’s worldcup with Greece and New Zealand meeting in the matchup. Let us know what would be your call and why? And how about the guy on the sideline asking for a technical foul? How do you handle people like that?
Lees verder “Block charge flop!”

Sometimes referees have difficulties of deciding when the Act of shooting has started. Sometimes players have difficulties understanding when the act of shooting has started. FIBA has made a nice video with explanation. Please be smart and use the terms in the clip if you have some explanation to do. Also be aware of the change in interpretation that was made after they completed the video: if a player passes after being fouled in the act of shooting, the foul is to be considered as made NOT in the act of shooting. High level referees always told me: if you are doubting if it was act of shooting or not (and you should not be, cuz the rules are pretty clear), say yes it was and award the freethrows. Lees verder “Act of shooting teaching Materials”

One can never check too many clips, for checking clips and understanding what happens makes life easier on court. This one is from our hero Sam Subby. Once again: Forza Italia 😉
But seriously: charge/block will always continue to keep people talking. So here’s another one. May I have your votes please? Lees verder “Charge/block”

Clips with Italy as one of the teams are very popular so we have another one from the great Sam Subby.  We know we should be looking for spaces between the players right?? So who should be calling the foul/out of bounce on this one? Center or lead?? And what should he call??? What would you do with the high post?
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By special request another clip from an Italy-game. Players sometimes have an urge to go to spots on the floor where already an opponent has find his or her spot. Arms fly around opponents arms and vice versa. To us as referees the often difficult task of understanding what has happened.

The following clip is quite the chaos: Is it a foul on blue 8 or a foul on white 9 here?? Thanks Sam Subby for your immer awesome clipping! Lees verder “Now what?”

We stumbled upon a very nice video with incorrect calls. Not to show refs making blunders , but including answers on why the call should be the other way around. Very good job of the guys of BlazedFire. Lees verder “Incorrect calls and why”

You guys seem to like the Oh So Difficult clips and we get it. Online you have a sort of IRS to your disposal, and not everybody is that lucky on the courts. This one is a difficult one where lots of things are happening. We are curious about your opinions for the events occuring after the rebound , and yes we know there’s more happening and yes we know we’ve posted clips with less visible pixels. But still 🙂
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We’ve had a lot of reaction on the previous clip about a tricky situation and it’s really cool to see everybody giving their opinion on it. Thanks to the amazing Sam Subby we’ve found another one that we’d like to share with you. If you have some clips yourself that you’d like to be discussed amongst followers of this community please feal free to hit us at info@officiatingscool.nl with a link or a wetransfer message so we can put it online here. The following clip will most certainly cause some debate too: Offensive or defensive and why?
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Sometimes players are really giving us a hard time. And I’m not even talking about verbal disagreement or such things. But more like the situation in the clip. Where is turmoil starting? Who is responsible? What to do in a situation like this?? Don’t really know what I would call in this situation, but very much looking forward to your calls and reasoning behind them. Lees verder “Oh so difficult”