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BANMI referees cap clinic on Tinian
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Posted on Feb 26 2009
Arnold Mesa and Noel Delos Santos of the BANMI Referees Association concluded a two-part clinic at the Tinian Municipal Gymnasium, Monday.
The clinic, which started on Feb. 16, discussed preventions of violations and injuries in basketball games.
Six teams playing in the 2009 Tinian Dynasty Hotel & Casino Invitational Basketball League were invited to the clinic.
Mesa and Delos Santos listed 25 things to remember to prevent violations and injuries and explained the first 12 in the first part of the clinic.
The list included the causes of injuries, traveling violations, deflection violations, 3-second violation, 8-second violation, 5-second violation, double dribble violation, pushing foul violation, backcourt violation, over the man violation, elbow and tripping violations, and blocking foul violation.
Mesa said it is important that players learned these violations from the perspective of referees, so complains and disruptions in games could be lessened.
“At the clinic, we tell them why we called the violation, so they will have a clear idea on how to conduct themselves once they are on the court. During actual games, when we call violations, referees don’t have much time to explain,” Mesa said.
The second and last part of the clinic focused on causes of technical foul violations, offensive foul, ejection, flagrant fouls, warning situations escalate to a technical foul, pick/screen violations, transition blocking foul (you can’t stop a river flow), double team/trapping violations, post up players’ offensive and defensive violations, and airborne shooters defensive or offensive violations.
Mesa and Delos Santos thanked Tinian Dynasty general manager Tom Liu, marketing and promotions coordinator Kiri Jackson, Tinian coach George Que, and league coordinator Noel Sabordo for making the clinic possible.
