By Clarence Woody, Clinician

1. Trust your partners.
2. Stay in your primary.
3. Clock management.
4. Work the system.
5. Referee the defense.
6. Referee your new area of responsibility immediately.
7. You set the tempo.
8. Call the obvious.
9. Patient whistle.
10. Communication within crew.
11. Deal with problems, review match ups.
12. Two positions for lead on the baseline.
13. Work wide in Lead to referee outside in.
14. Relax in the lead and stay in your primary.
15. Center with ball on your side with drive to hoop: referee play all the way to the hoop.
16. Center and Trail responsible for curl play
    Trail look into the post when Lead picks up ball outside lane
    Gets plays from backside.
17. Post play guidelines: what they can and cannot do.
18. Illegal screens: where they are set and impact on play.
19. Basic rotation and floor coverage.
20. Hand checking and guard play: what they can and cannot do.
21. Traveling find pivot foot, emphasis in post after offensive rebound.
22. Half- and game-ending situations and mechanics.
23. Know team and personal fouls, score, and time.
24. Referee strong when ball goes away from you.
25. When official stays in primary, the fraction of calls that are correct is high.
26. When calling out of your primary, 75% of calls are wrong.
27. Get the play right.