Transcription of Basketball Officials Manual
1 Basketball Officials Manual Crews of 2 and 3 MHSAA Officials PROGRAM MHSAA Press 2019 Copyright 2019 by Michigan High School Athletic Association All rights reserved. This Manual or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review, scholarly journal or training materials by Local Approved Associations of the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
2 First Printing: 2019 Contents Acknowledgement .. vi Introduction .. 1 Section 1: General Basketball Officiating .. 3 I) MHSAA Basketball Rules Fundamentals .. 3 II) Helpful Hints for Officiating Basketball .. 5 III) Officiating Character, Conduct and Ethics .. 6 IV) Personal Responsibilities .. 8 A) Physical Conditioning .. 8 B) Knowledge of Rules, Mechanics and Signals .. 8 C) Hustle .. 10 D) Uniform .. 10 V) Officials Communication .. 11 A) Assignment Preparations .. 11 B) Pregame Crew Conference.
3 12 C) Double Whistles .. 12 D) Inadvertent Whistles/Horns .. 16 E) Communication with Coaching Staffs .. 17 F) Correctable Errors .. 19 VI) Pregame Responsibilities .. 22 A) Meeting with Game Administrator .. 22 B) Conference with Captains and Coaches .. 23 C) Meeting with Officials Timer and Official Scorer .. 25 Section 2: Situation Management .. 27 I) Players .. 27 A) Fifth Foul Disqualification .. 28 B) Ejections .. 28 II) Coaches .. 28 III) Spectators .. 29 IV) Report Writing .. 30 Section 3: Terminology and Concepts (Alphabetical by Topic) 31 Section 4: Jump Ball.
4 44 I) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 44 A) Referee .. 44 B) Umpire .. 46 C) Player Control Gained in the Frontcourt .. 46 D) Player Control Gained in the Backcourt .. 47 II) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 48 A) Referee .. 48 B) Umpires .. 49 C) Umpire (U1) .. 50 D) Umpire (U2) .. 50 E) Player Control Gained by Team on Referee s Right .. 50 F) Player Control Gained by Team on Referee s Left .. 51 G) Ball Tipped Deep into the Backcourt .. 52 Section 5: Throw-Ins .. 54 I) General Throw-In Provisions .. 54 II) 2-Person System Mechanics.
5 57 A) Backcourt End Line Throw-In .. 57 B) Sideline Throw-In .. 58 C) Frontcourt End Line Throw-In .. 60 D) Starting a Period or After Technical Foul free Throws .. 61 E) Player Coverage .. 62 F) Press Coverage .. 62 III) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 63 A) Backcourt End Line Throw-In .. 63 B) Sideline Throw-In .. 64 C) Frontcourt End Line Throw-In .. 65 D) Starting a Period or After Technical Foul free Throws .. 66 E) Player Coverage .. 67 F) Press Coverage .. 67 Section 6: free Throws .. 69 I) 2-Person System Mechanics.
6 69 A) General Provisions .. 69 B) Lead Official .. 70 C) Trail Official .. 74 II) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 76 A) General Provisions .. 76 B) Lead Official .. 78 C) Center Official .. 81 D) Trail Official .. 83 III) All Officials Responsibilities .. 84 A) Each Official .. 84 Section 7: Court Coverage .. 85 I) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 85 A) General Provisions .. 85 B) Lead Positioning .. 87 C) Trail Positioning .. 88 D) On-Ball/Off-Ball .. 88 E) SCA: Secondary Coverage Area Principles .. 89 F) Five-Second Closely Guarded Count.
7 90 G) Drive to Basket .. 91 H) Line Coverages .. 91 I) Delay or Spread Offense .. 93 J) Press Coverage .. 93 K) Ball-Side Mechanic .. 93 L) Field Goal Attempts and Rebounding .. 95 M) Three-Point Try .. 96 N) Signaling .. 98 O) Transition Coverages .. 98 P) Last-Second Shot .. 99 II) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 102 A) Prime Objective of the 3-Person System .. 102 B) Lead Positioning .. 103 C) Center Positioning .. 104 D) Trail Positioning .. 105 E) Primary Coverage Areas (PCAs) .. 106 F) On-Ball/Off-Ball .. 107 G) SCA: Secondary Coverage Area Principles.
8 108 H) Five-Second Closely Guarded Count .. 109 I) Three-Second Count .. 110 J) Drive to Basket .. 110 K) Line Coverages .. 111 L) Field Goal Attempts and Rebounding .. 113 M) Three-Point Try .. 114 N) Press Coverage .. 115 O) Rotation Principles .. 117 P) Lead Rotates .. 119 Q) Center, After Lead Rotates .. 121 R) Trail, As Lead Rotates .. 122 S) Field Goal Attempts and Rebounding .. 122 T) Signaling .. 123 U) Transition Coverages .. 123 V) Last-Second Shot .. 126 Section 8: Violations .. 130 I) Procedures .. 130 II) Out-of-Bounds Violations.
9 131 III) free Throw Violations .. 133 IV) Basket Interference/Goaltending Violations .. 133 A) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 133 B) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 134 Section 9: Fouls .. 135 I) Site of the Foul .. 135 II) Reporting .. 137 III) Non-Reporting Official(s) .. 139 IV) Disqualification Procedure .. 140 V) Dead Ball Switching .. 141 A) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 141 B) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 145 Section 10: Held Ball .. 153 Section 11: Time-outs .. 154 I) Restrictions on Granting Time-Outs .. 154 II) Erroneous Time-Outs.
10 155 III) Simultaneous Time-Out Requests .. 155 IV) Injury Time-Outs .. 155 A) Bleeding or Bloody Players .. 156 B) Concussions .. 156 V) Reporting Procedures .. 157 VI) Positioning .. 158 A) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 159 B) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 160 VII) Resuming Play .. 162 Section 12: Intermissions .. 163 I) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 163 II) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 164 Section 13: Substitutions .. 165 I) 2-Person System Mechanics .. 165 II) 3-Person System Mechanics .. 167 Section 14: MHSAA Approved Signals .. 169vi Acknowledgement The MHSAA could not administer its sports without the hard work and dedication of its Officials .
