5 Play Fridays – S1 E4 – Hey Ref! What are you even looking at? Today we’re going to look at plays going from Trail to Lead. Primary coverage. Primary defenders. secondary defenders. How we are going to officiate this game in two-person mechanics of course these principles also apply to three person mechanics Our emphasis today is understanding which players we are officiating, what our primary responsibilities are and staying connected to plays as Trail. Not giving up on them. Today as we do basketball referee play review, we’re going to focus on     Play 1 – Foul. Shooting Foul or not? – Basketball referee learning points Lead official is responsible for the secondary defender. he’s officiating this play for a possible block charge, for absence of verdict verticality, or for elbow contact here. the Trail official is responsible for the primary defender on the play. the primary defender is red 1 and needs to stay with the play and get this push by red 1 on our airborne shooter. we’re dividing the responsibilities of a who’s officiating what. Lead is responsible for secondary defender on a drive to the lane the Trail needs to stay connected on the primary defender and also ready to make any calls on obvious fouls in their secondary. so the primary focus of this play is staying connected as Trail but having discipline as a crew. recognizing who is officiating what.   Play 2 –  – Basketball referee learning points play down the lane secondary defender belongs to the Lead. Lead has first crack in their primary coverage area. Trail official has this player primary defender. we could from the Trail I have a reach-in by this player here but this block charge play belongs to the Lead. Play 3 – Lead’s call. Is shoulder turn by defender a factor? – Basketball referee learning points screening action player in the Trail’s primary Pass and crash play offensive

5 Play Fridays – S1 E3 –     welcome to another edition of 5 play Fridays where we look at plays and see what we can take from them so that we can get better as basketball officials. 5 play Fridays is weekly series with new videos releasing every Friday during the basketball season. make sure to hit subscribe and also the notification bell so you don’t miss out on any of our new videos. A quick thank you for those who bought us a cup of coffee this week. very generous and much appreciated. thank you. you can always buy us a coffee at abetterofficial.com/coffee   Today as we do basketball referee play review, we’re going to focus on    Play 1 – Foul. Shooting Foul or not? – Basketball referee play review now let’s look at plays the point of this play is to recognize whether or not we have a shooting foul if you are inclined to say this is not a shooting foul I encourage you to check the action on the play and get a clearer understanding of when the habitual throwing motion begins. basically the shooting motion by the player. this is a ball handler dribbler she is dribbling the ball she picks up the ball.  the foul has not yet occurred. the foul occurs with the hip check right here. that drives the player off their line. this is absolutely a shooting foul and the player should be awarded two free-throws. right here she’s a dribbler. she has begun her habitual throwing motion here. the foul occurs here when the player extends her hips. trail official. primary defender. open look. foul that’s a shooting foul two free-throws awarded.   Play 2 – Hard Foul – Basketball referee play review you alright new lead is

5 Play Fridays – S1 E2 – Today as we do basketball referee play review, we’re going to focus on two of the NFHS points of emphasis for 2018. we’ll start with two plays that involve traveling and then two plays that involve block/charge and guarding. Stick around for play number 5 as I guarantee it will be a challenge for you as a basketball official. let’s get started. As we recall from the points of emphasis video for 2018, NFHS says not that there’s TOO MUCH traveling being called not that there’s TOO LITTLE traveling being called but rather the accuracy of traveling calls needs improvement and the way to improve our accuracy is to first identify the pivot foot. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. [bctt tweet=”NFHS says not that there’s TOO MUCH traveling being called not that there’s TOO LITTLE traveling being called but rather the accuracy of traveling calls needs improvement and the way to improve our accuracy is to first identify the pivot foot. ” username=”BetterOfficials”]   Play 1 – Step back move. Legal? – Basketball referee play review More basketball referee play review with this step-back play popularized by James Harden in the NBA among others. It is definitely being taught to kids today, so it’s something we have to learn to officiate. The player terminates his dribble with a right foot pivot foot. He uses the right foot to push his body away from the defender and creates space for an open shot. This is all well and good. The problem is he comes with a staggered landing landing: one foot two foot. By rule that is a traveling violation. What he’s trying to do is execute the move from our points of emphasis video. He jumps off one foot holding the ball but