Statistics and Table Officiating explained
   Date :22-Jul-2020

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Sports Reporter :
 
A VERY important session on Statistics and Table Officiating was held on Day 3 of the MahaBasket Referee’s Clinic. The five-day clinic is being conducted by association of district basketball bodies of Maharashtra. Lebanon’s Maroof Mawloud, who is the Data, Eligibility and Statistics Manager of FIBA Asia and also a Statistics Manager at upcoming Tokyo Olympics, inaugurated the session. Michel Vino from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, an FIBA referee who officiated in Commonwealth Games as well as World Cup Qualifiers was guest for the session and he answered the queries raised by the aspirant as well as qualified referees participants from across Maharashtra. Rakesh Maheshwari, an FIBA certified Statistician explained the statistics sheet — how it is maintained and the terminologies of the stat sheet.
 
Often from local level to higher level, the performance of a player is assessed only on the basis of points scored by a basketball player. Though a player’s name is reflected in newspapers, in absence of a stat sheet nobody will know how many attempts the player took to score that many baskets. So the stat sheet is important for players’ assessment, for coaches, media, selectors and the federations. Maheshwari elaborated the definitions like field goals, free throw percentages, rebounds, assists, steal, block shots, turnovers etc. Rahul Dhone conducted the session on Table Officiating in which he informed how to maintain the score sheet, what are the duties of main scorer and assistant scorers.
 
He also elaborated as to how the personal fouls, technical fouls, unsportsmanlike foul, disqualification foul, time outs, substitutions etc are recorded in the score sheets. He explained the duties of the time keepers in case of full game clock and 24 seconds, 14 seconds operations of the clock. Shatrughna Gokhale, Shiv Chhatrapati Awardee and Coordinator, MahaBasket conducted the proceedings. Dr Parveen Kumar and Dr Amit Tembhurne looked after the technical support.
 
Second day of the clinic was marked by Articles 15 to 25 of the FIBA Basketball Rule Book. Dr Sharad Bansode elaborated on the act of shooting — when it starts and when it ends, goal or a basket, when it is called a successful basket and when unsuccessful, throw ins, throw in violations. He also covered the time outs as in all five time outs are allowed in a game out of which two are in first half and three in second half. If the game goes in extra time, there is one time out allowed for each team.