Hornsby Kuring-gai Basketball Association

Stars in Stripes July 2005

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‘STARS IN STRIPES’ MAKES A COMEBACK!

Welcome to the first edition back of the ‘Stars in Stripes’ newsletter.This is a newsletter that is produced by the HKBA Referee Coaching Panel. The Referee Coaching Panel has decided to resurrect it as a regular bulletin for you, the referees of HKBA.This newsletter will be produced monthly and will have news and updates from HKBA Referee Coaching Panel, Basketball NSW and Basketball Australia, plus other interesting snippets. So be sure to read and keep up to date with all the news and events throughout theyear, along with any rule clarifications, quizzes, upgrades and interesting articles.

This is your newsletter, so if there is anything you would like to see added, removed, topics covered, etc please email Vicki Dean or call Vicki in the Hornsby Basketball Office on (02) 9980 6255 and we will try and include as much as we can.Thank you to all referees on the smooth transition into the new stadium and be sure to keep up the good work.
Happy Whistling

HKBA Referee Coaching Panel

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR JULY!

Meagan Dickerson

Alyce Smith

Nicolas Murchinson

Shaun McDougal

Andrew Skidmore

Daniel Arthur

Oliver Davies

Mitchell Smith

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL!!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Miguel Zaragoza
First ABA
game appointment

Andrew Cannings
14M final
at Country Championships

Referees Unisex Team
Runners Up in the Sunday Unisex Comp (see article on the
website)

Congrats to all Grand Final Referees at local Competitions!!

SPIDERS REFEREE WEB

We have begun revamping the referee’s page of this website to
include more and more useful
information. This information will help
you improve your skills, learn new
management techniques, like handling
angry players and parents, or refereeing by yourself.

On the site there will also be articles
and the new Hornsby Referee Book of
Knowledge that will have all the little
rules and regulations that we enforce on the court that you’ve heard about but have never been sure of what the actual rule is! This is our way to ensure all our referees are on the same page when it comes to telling players to cut their nails or what is correct uniform and what is not acceptable or what the association rule really is for the number of players a team is allowed to start with. We will also clarify timing regulations and other little bits of information that have caused
some confusion in the past couple of
months.

RULES CORNER

The idea of this column is to discuss aspects of basketball simply and briefly from a referees perspective.This month’s column will discuss how the ball is played and how a player moves down the court, and how this can become a travelling violation.

Any player standing on the court can catch the ball with one or two hands. They can begin to move one foot around while keeping the other foot planted firmly on the floor, this is the pivot foot. Once the player decides to progress down the court they must dribble, but the dribble must begin before the pivot foot is lifted off the ground. The ball must hit the floor before raising the pivot foot! Otherwise we have a travelling violation.While dribbling the player is allowed to move both feet and continue moving until the ball comes to rest in one or both hands. At this stage the player can only do one of the following things.

1. Stop, having established a pivot foot, they can pivot on that foot until they have passed or shot the ball.

2. Take two steps right at the end of a dribble to pass or shoot the ball

3. Or they can just stand still and not move their feet at all.

Anything that isn’t included above becomes a travelling violation!

Remember, when calling a travelling violation, you need to make sure you see the hands, the ball and the feet, and always think to yourself, as soon as the player stops dribbling or catches the ball, which foot is the
pivot foot. Confused? Just ask a referee coach and we’ll clear it up for you

PROFILE OF THE MONTH

Name: Shahrad Shafaghi

Age: 24

Grade: 2

How long have you been
refereeing for? Nearly 10 years

Best thing about being a referee?
Has to be the people you meet and
make lifelong friendships with.

Current competitions:
There nearly every night!

Other Hobbies:
What?? Basketball is life!!

Favourite Food:
Anything (except pumpkin)

Favourite TV show:
What ever I get time to watch …
can’t go past channel V and MTV
though

UPCOMING EVENTS

6TH July
Level O
Referee Course

Referee Social!!!
(Date to be announced
Let us know what you’d like to do!)

TIP OF THE MONTH

CALL FOULS!!!!
We need to make sure the players are
looked after and are safe while playing at the HKBA. If you are refereeing primary school level it’s very easy, so just remember this and you’ll never
be wrong …

CONTACT IS A FOUL!!!!

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