Officiating's Cool

We bet you guys recognize the situation in this play: you are on the lead position, and both teams battle for position as the ball goes out of bounds. If you are not 100% sure one of our editors often says: make a really strong gesture that old defense gets the ball and hope for the best. It’s not something you want to do six times a game , but if a player is blocking you, or you have a wave of less focus you can do it like that. That being said: What will you call in the clip below and most of all: WHY will you call it like that? Lees verder “Out of bounds!”

Our question of yesterday caused a lot of traffic to the site and thats a good thing. It means that lots of people are putting effort in getting better as a ref and thats why we exist. We were notified of a great instructional video with FIBA guidelines about the three second rule. We’d like to thank Nikolas Sachinopoulos for his tip to the video. Lees verder “Three second violations!”

French FIBA referee Valentin Oliot (right in the picture) will be part of the team that will officiate Germany-Croatia with the home team looking to secure a place for Eurobasket Women later this year. He will be accompanied by Martin Horosov and Can Mavisu while longtime FIBA Chantal Julien will feature as commisionar. The link to the stream is down below.
Lees verder “Valentin Oliot live in action #livestream @ 15.30”

Spanish international referee Espe Mendoza is nominated for the battle in the bubble between Romania and Czechia. The tipoff is at 13.00 hours and the stream is down here. Her collegues are Geert Jacobs from Belgium and Sinisa Prpa from Serbia. Lees verder “Espe Mendoza in action #livestream”

Russia versus Estonia will feature one of our followers and we are happy to see Liz Fomina (Belarus) in action with Viola Gyorgy from Norway and Ventislav Velikov from Bulgaria. You can find the stream down below: Lees verder “Fomina in action! #livestream”

Marion Ortis and Jasmina Juras are two of the leading ladies in FIBA officiating. Today they will team with Latvian crewchief of the day Martins Koslovskis for the battle between Belarus and Great Brittain. The stream is under the button. Lees verder “Ortis and Juras in action @12.30 #LIVESTREAM ALERT”

As we’ve often stated: covering your violations will make your life easier on court. One of the violations that more often than rarely will lead to disccusion is the three seconds rule. So we decided to put up a clip where the question is: do you blow your whistle or not? Lees verder “What do we do here?”

We are back after some busy days on a number of levels. And what better way to get the weekend started than another episode of: Charge/block ???
Let’s hear it and please explain your decision!
Lees verder “Charge/block chapterrrrrr….”

As you might have noticed, the online websession about the traveling rule was taken down because some errors were found in the lecture. So let’s continue with a nice clip and see what we’re having here. Please remember: it’s not about just the call, but we’re looking for an explanation too! Cause if you can’t explain it, don’t call it! Lees verder “Here’s another nice clip!”