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Issue 7: 17 March 2022
REFEREE LEADERSHIP GROUP
Te Kirikauri Pene has been appointed to the new position on the Referee Leadership Group (previously known as the National Referee Appointments and Development Committee). That completes the membership of the group for the 2022-2023 term, with the other members re-appointed from the previous National Referee Appointments and Development Committee. Here are short profiles of the members.
Peter Rodgers is the Chair of the Referee Leadership Group and is the current National Referee Instructor, a FIBA-mandated position, and has completed the FIBA Referee Instructor Programme training. He is also the Chief Referee Evaluator for the National Basketball Leagues. Peter’s association with refereeing and referee training goes back to the mid-eighties and has seen him contribute in many different roles, including a 12-year career refereeing in the NBL.
Ken Coulson has been appointed to a position on the group allocated for a person who has completed the FIBA Referee Instructor Programme training. He is a former top referee, both in the NBL for 23 years and at the international level, including refereeing at the 2000 Olympic Games. Ken has also had a long involvement in referee training at all levels and is currently active at national tournaments and in both the New Zealand and Australian NBLs.
Jilly Harris has been appointed to a position on the group allocated for a person who has completed the FIBA Referee Instructor Programme training. She also holds FIBA Commissioner, score table and statistician licences. Jilly is the games and officials manager at Auckland Basketball Services, involved with the training and development of referees at community level, works as a referee trainer at national tournaments, and she also works with Māori Basketball.
Stephanie Eldred is the current National Leagues Appointments Officer and is also a referee evaluator for these leagues. She referees in the local Canterbury club competition and has done for many years. Stephanie is also working with the local development officer to help train some younger referees through the same competition and has previously been involved in training young referees at association level and as both a referee and trainer at age-group and school tournaments.
Marty Davison is one of New Zealand’s top active referees, being a senior referee on the NBL referee panel and the holder of a FIBA international referee licence. He started refereeing when he was in 14 to make a bit of pocket money and really enjoyed the challenge and has kept it up ever since. Marty has also been involved in referee training at a community level in Canterbury.
Te Kirikauri Pene is the referee co-ordinator for Rotorua Basketball Association, working successfully to develop a local pool of referees. Coming from a family heavily involved in basketball, she started refereeing at the age of 12 and has refereed at various levels including regional and national tournaments before getting involved in referee training.
COACH LEADERSHIP GROUP
BBNZ has also established a new Coach Leadership Group to help guide and support the development of coaching in basketball. You can read more about this group and the people appointed to it on the BBNZ website here.
FITNESS RESOURCES
Hopefully there’s been a lot of work done over the summer on fitness to get ready for this season. As well as getting yourself fit, testing yourself with the FIBA fitness test (the beep test) is a good exercise, especially for those planning to referee at national tournaments this year, as you should be able to reach level 8 (66 laps) for females and level 10 (86 laps) for males.
Some resources on fitness, including a link to the audio for the fitness test, have been added to the Officials Hub on the BBNZ website here.
AON U19 NATIONALS
We are seeking expressions of interest for referees for the Aon U19 Nationals. The tournament is being played in North Canterbury on 4-7 June (travel required a day each side). If you would like to be considered for this panel, please e-mail referees@nz.basketball.
REFEREE TECHNIQUE FOCUS:
The throw-in protocol
Following the correct protocol for the administration of the throw-in will mean that you are better able to referee the throw-in and the play around it.
According to the principles of the individual officiating techniques (IOTs), a key part in this is getting some distance between you and the thrower-in before you bounce the ball to the player. This means you can get a wider view of the play and a better chance of spotting any violations.
The proper steps to follow for administering a throw-in are:
- Designate the throw in spot, pointing and using your voice (“There’s your spot”)
- Use preventative officiating (“Don’t move from there”)
- Check the clocks
- Get some distance from the play
- Put the whistle in your mouth while holding the ball
- For an end-line throw-in in front court or to start a quarter or extra period, blow the whistle
- Bounce the ball to the player
- Start the visible count
- Observe the throw-in and action around it
- Use the start-the-clock signal
RULES QUIZ
Test yourself with these rule questions.
- B1 fouls dribbler A2. Then A2 shoves B1 hard in the chest. Then B1 gives A2 a hard shove back. What penalty are you going to end up administering?
- A1 is driving to the basket. B2 steps in front of A1 and then starts falling before there is any contact, in an attempt to fake a foul. During the fall, B2’s leg contacts A1 and the referee calls a foul on B2. Can B2 also be given a fake warning?
- In the first quarter, substitute A6 sitting on the team bench swears at a referee and a technical foul is called, charged to Coach A as a “bench” technical foul. In the third quarter, Coach A disputes a call with theatrical gestures and is charged with a technical foul. Is Coach A now disqualified from the game?
- During a fight on court, may a team manager come on to the court to drag a player away from the fight?
- At 4:02 in the first quarter, A1 shoots a successful three-point field goal but the scorer mistakenly records it as a two-point goal. At quarter time, Coach A asks the referees about the error. Is the error correctable at this time?
Rules quiz answers
- A throw-in for Team A. First, you have an ordinary player foul called on B1, then you have two unsportsmanlike fouls. The penalties for the unsportsmanlike fouls cancel so you are left with the penalty for the first foul. – Art 42
- No. There cannot be a foul and a fake warning on the same play. However, the referee should speak to B2 about the fake attempt. – IOT manual, section 2.13
- No. A coach is disqualified after two personal technical fouls or after three technical fouls if one or more of them is a “bench” technical foul as a result of the behaviour of someone else on the team bench. – Art 36.2.4
- No. Only the coach or assistant coach may leave the team bench to assist the referees restore order. – Art 39.2.2
- Yes. This is not a “correctable error” covered by Article 44. An error with scorekeeping can be corrected at any time before the crew chief signs the scoresheet at the end of the game. – Art 44.2.7
REGISTERED IN THE BBNZ DATABASE?
If you're active as a referee or a referee trainer, you should be registered in the BBNZ database. To complete a registration if you are not currently in the database, follow this link. You can check and update your details at any time later by going to members.nz.basketball and logging in with the same e-mail and password.
MORE INFO
- nz.basketball/officials
- BBNZ Referees Facebook page
- FIBA iRef Pre-Game app - download from Apple or Google Play
- FIBA iRef Academy Library app - download from Apple or Google Play
