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Re: Judges Hand Signals
As a coach on the field, no, they didn't help. This may be different from spectators but typically when I was confused about a call it was one of the fouls not estimated to be "frequent enough" to have its own hand signal. When an alliance partner drives into the key or touches the bridge, it was pretty obvious to everybody.
Sometimes they actually became more confusing. In the quarterfinals at FLR, 3 penalties were called on our alliance with the hand motion of "being touched in opponent key, alley or bridge". We were on the scoring side of the field and think maybe the ref had her sides of the field mixed up. However the head ref told our students that they could not ask what the fouls were during the match (that would be "discussing a foul") so we really have no way of knowing.
I applaud the GDC for trying to be as true to the sport as possible. However, with a game being much more complicated than the NBA, even if the game is more appealing to the audience, I think the students are really being cheated by this referee and foul system this year.
Just my $0.02.
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