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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by tomegun
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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Look, I don't know who you are or where you work or the level you work at and I am sure you're the best thing that's happened to basketball in the last 50 years. But you're wrong. Please don't take this as a personal attack but one of the silliest things we refereees like to say is "if you're looking over there who's looking over here". Well, I'm telling you we need to look everywhere.
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Dan, I'm not hardly the best thing to happen to the game. The game is probably 5th on my list of the best things to happen to me. I was just making a point with Mick that we cannot go in thinking it is OK to make this a regular part of our game. That's all nothing more nothing less.
When you speak of the L getting a call right that the T missed are you talking about 2-person or 3-person? ...
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When I speak of getting the call right I mean get the call right. If I signal a 3 that's actually a 2, do you think the next day's sports section will say "Dan blew a last second call that gave the visitors the game. Tomegun and Bart were the other 2 officials, but since that shot wasn't in their primary they did a good job."
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Wow, now I know what it is like to be taken out of context! After what you quoted I went on to expain why I asked wheter it is 2 or 3 person. Do you really think that if Johnny's mom is getting dental work done on her son she is going to care that Dan was watching the ball while her son caught a bow in the paint? Are you going to T up coach A when he is pissed about a illegal pick that caused someone to be wide open for the go ahead basket that you missed because you wanted to make sure your partner (who is also getting paid for the game) was seeing the correct thing? My point is what happens when we miss something while we are looking at the ball? I thought the original post was a 3-person game and the 3 was taken in the C's primary. Isn't it a stretch for the L to see this? This happens all the time in a 2-person between the L and T for a good reason but between the L and C? It also happens all the time between the T and C in a 3-person game. That is a given the L has the paint! You know the area where they get the "rough play in the post" point of emphasis e v e r y year.
Things we discuss on this board is practice. You know everyone can hit a J in practice but when you have some live defense the percentages go down. Your mechanics in the mirror can be perfect but aren't going to be quite that good in a game. Plays work perfect on paper but don't work that well in a game. If we prepare to be mechanically perfect it will not happen in a game but we will be better than if we go in with the mindset that it is OK to be all over the place. Sort of like that shoot for the moon and you will still be among the stars mumbo jumbo.
I have to go to a game now.