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One of my friends from Las Vegas hasn't had a chance to see a tape of his games so I taped his game on Saturday (I'll just say one of the teams was and still is undefeated) and broke down the film for him. The stats on his calls, double fouls and the like were pretty good for a crew. Out west efforts are being made to do what Hank Nichols wants. This is a slow process but it is on the subject of this thread.
Let me create two verbs so I can save some typing:
GIR - get it right (what some members want)
DIR - do it right
So, with a 3-person crew if there are plays and something is missed some say we should GIR which entails looking out of the primary. In order to GIR in most of these situations you had to be focusing out of your primary to see the whole play. A lot of what Mr. Nichols wants is cleaning up the post so if the L is GIR who is watching his primary? Nobody, and off-ball coverage suffers and fouls are missed. The end result is 3 people are getting paid to do the job that two people can do and two people can probably do it better since there is a void on the court where someone's eyes should be. This puts our whole 3-person initiative for high school games in jeopardy and is the reason why some states are still able to say "we don't have the money." If it is proven and used to cover the court better everyone will adopt it sooner or later.
Now let's look at the same play if we DIR. By DIR the primary gets into the proper position to see the plays in the primary and the L, C or T that was doubling the coverage in this primary can DIR and watch their primary. Additional plays can be picked up and a game could go so much smoother. Someone long ago came up with an additional whistle. Even before that someone came up with areas of primary coverage. This was done to better the officiating and DIR. If we train and our goal is to GIR then the games will be helter skelter. If we train to DIR our percentages will be much higher. There are times when we have to GIR. If we DIR those times should decrease significantly.
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