Basketball Pre-Game Officials Conference Board

1. Pre Game Duties : referee/umpire/Table/Game Management
   On Floor at 15:00 minute mark, Captains and Coaches at 13:00
    
2. New Rules / Points of Emphasis
    
3. Possession Arrow / 3 Point Play (When to Shadow each other)
    
4. Floor Coverage - Who's watching what?
        ? Off Ball Coverage     ? Eye Contact     ?Airborne Shooter
    
5. Switches - (No switches after time outs)
    
6. Out of Bounds Coverage and In Bound plays
    
7. Over and Back - "The 3 Points" / Counts - 10, 5, and 3 second
    
8. Adjust and help when Full Court pressure occurs
    
9. Foul call technique / Free throw administration/ Free throw coverage areas
    
10. Substitutions - Players into game / Player out of game (fouling out)
     
11. Time outs / Expiration of Time / Special Situations
     
12. Double Whistles / Double Fouls and False Double Fouls
     
13. Fouls / Coaching Boxes / Bench Decorum
     
14. Review Personnel of Teams / Styles of Play
     
15. Last second procedure
     
16. Review overtime Procedure
     
17. End of game / leaving floor / half-time and post game conference
     
18. Call the obvious fouls and violations
     
19. Basket Interference and Goal Tending
     
20. Use advantage / disadvantage principal with contact (especially screening)
         ? Block / Charge - be in position, see it, call it, sell it
     
21. Referee the defense when the ball is in your primary area
     
22. Atypical Situations; Fight, intentional fouls, flagrant fouls , double technical

Major Points

• Establish a Tempo - let the game come to you
• Communicate with your partner / never show him or her up
• The Fans are their to watch the players...... not you
• Trust your partners to call there primary area / make sure you call yours too!
• Never call something you cannot administer
• What are the five correctable errors?
• Limit talking to the players and coaches - It will come back to haunt you
• Look sharp, be confident, be professional and hustle all the time