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Old Fri Feb 27, 2004, 04:10am
SMEngmann SMEngmann is offline
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One thing that I've noticed as a young official that has annoyed me particularly this season as I have gotten a much better schedule is that some of the seasoned vets tend to come well out of their primary. I've seen vets signal three-pointers as the lead that were shot at the top of the key. As tomegun suggests, all officials, particularly need to trust their partner to make calls. Someone who strays out of his coverage area and makes calls such as three pointers is doing the game a disservice and has a higher propensity of botching the call. That being said, I agree with the earlier post that once the partner blew his whistle and said two points, you have to go with his call. In his mind, clearly, there was a foot on the line. Save yourself the argument and get on his about the call at halftime.
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