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Originally posted by sportsannouncing
I have read the rule book. I read the rule book about once a month during basketball season and once before it starts. I do this to follow the play of the game but when I see the rule in black-and-white then ignored or called differently during a game, I see problems arise.
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You have to be kidding me. I officiate 3 sports (at one time 4) and I was and still am constantly in the rulebook. I do not just read it once and never pick it up again. No self respecting official does that I know.
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I've consulted many an official on rules and interpretations. I ask how they can make a call from half-court on a player underneath the basket when four players obscure his point of view. I often hear, "if I don't see it, I can't call it" when in fact they do. This leads to problems that arise during games such as coaches chirping, fans and players getting upset, and possibly violence.
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Do you read the Officiating Manual as well? Because if you did, you would not have even made this stupid statement.
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I know coaches will talk, complain and do what they can to inflence calls and some do. They do it very well even with the best of officials.
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I can see you never talked to any officials.
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But where is the communication? Coach asks a referee a question and more often than not there isn't a response until it starts to get out of hand. If, and when, I blow a call, ask me. The first thing I do whenever I walk onto a playing field in official's garb is to let both teams know if they have a question they can ask. Just that offer in itself is enough to calm some of the roughest coaches.
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You really are a xxx. Basketball is not baseball. Play cannot stop so that a coach can get a question. If you also read in that rulebook, it is against the rules to question a judgment call. If you read the rulebook more than a couple of times during the season, then you might just realize that. And it is not a practice of any good official that I know to even acknowledge the coaches unless there is an appropriate time.
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Instead of keeping the intricacies of officiating among a small, select few who are always looking for new members, let's go out and do something about it. It starts from the top down. Make officials available to press on the professional level and make them accessible to fans after games to ask questions. I wish I had someone taping games I did. I know I've missed calls but wanted to know why. I asked fans and players, not fellow officials because it's easier for like people to say, "You did a good job" where a fan is more likely to be truthful and blunt.
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Dude, you ask the fans? What tha......? I am convinced now, this is a joke. You just came here to get everyone worked up and later tell us you were joking. I guess the next time I see an uneducated person, I will make sure I get them to tell me what being a good doctor is all about.
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I didn't become the level of Game Producer I did by asking others in my position. I asked fans, coaches, players and took a lot of criticism. Communication is the key, let's communicate. Let's take the solid line between fans and officials and blur it so each other understands. Major League Baseball is coming close by having an umpire available for questioning during games to clairfy calls. That's excellent, let's do that with basketball but make sure that what's being said can't be contradicted by the rule book.
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You have not read the part of the rulebook that talks about the "spirit of the rules." Rules are not just black and white. The fact that you think they are shows how much you really need to learn about the game of basketball or any game for that matter. It is not our job to educate the public. But it is your job to educate the public in your position, but you are too stupid to do so by asking even more uneducated folks (fans and players) what the rules are. I do not know about you, but I and many here have to take a rules test every season (sometimes two tests). It forces us to learn the language and understand what our job is. I will say this, we all might not agree on everything here, but your knowledge of the game is really lacking compared to most here. You seem to have no grasp of what happens in a game. Because if you try to compare baseball to basketball, that alone shows how silly you are. I have been officiating/umpiring both sports for almost 10 years and nothing about basketball is the same as baseball. But that is why you are an announcer, not a "real" official. Keep doing those rec. games, someone has to do them.
Peace
[Edited by mick on Oct 14th, 2003 at 10:02 PM]