One thing I clinicians talked about more is how to handle situations that come up. Technical Foul situations, coach outbursts, player outbursts. I know that each official handles each situation differently, but hearing multiple ways to handle situations would have helped me out a lot early on in my officiating career. You can practice mechanics in a mirror, you can watch film on plays until you go blind, but you can't practice conflict resolution techniques when coaches/players lose their ish.
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