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Basketball · 2 officials

High school · Indoors · 22 questions

Keep the answers in a Crew Room
  1. 1Referee
  2. 2Umpire

Common labels, offered as a start. Change them to match your manual.

  1. T-45 min

    Arrival

    1. Where and when do we meet before we go in (lot, entrance, locker room)?
    2. Who checks in with the site manager, and who asks where we dress, sit at the break and leave from?
    3. Who checks the playing area and the equipment the game needs before the start?
  2. T-15 min

    Before the start

    1. Who meets the captains or coaches, and what is the one thing we say to them?
    2. Who checks the scorer, timer or book, and how will they tell us they need us?
    3. Who checks the book, the possession arrow and the clock operator at every break?
  3. Every play

    Coverage

    1. Where is each of us at the start, and who has the first restart?
    2. A play happens between two of us: who takes it, and how do we show "mine" or "yours"?
    3. Two of us see a play differently: when do we get together, and who gives the decision?
    4. When does the lead rotate, and how does the rest of the crew know it happened?
    5. Full-court press: who has the ball and who has the players behind it?
  4. Every stoppage

    Signals between us

    1. What signal means "check the clock / time remaining"?
    2. What signal means "watch that player" or "talk at the next break"?
    3. How do I ask you for help on a call, and how do you give it without a show?
  5. When it heats up

    Game management

    1. A coach keeps talking: what is our step-by-step, and who handles the bench nearest each of us?
    2. A player is hurt: who stays with the play and who goes to the player and the bench?
    3. A fight or a crowd problem: who separates, who records numbers and times, who talks to site management?
  6. When it happens

    Special situations

    1. Last-second shot: who watches the clock, and who rules whether the shot counts?
  7. Final minutes

    End of the game

    1. Who owns the clock in the final minute of each period or half?
    2. How do we confirm the final score and leave together?
  8. T+15 min

    After the game

    1. Where do we debrief (five minutes, before anyone drives off)?
    2. Who files any report the league or association needs, and by when?

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