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Originally posted by gazou
You know, the kind of game where everything goes wrong and you, as a referee, look bad and worst, feel bad.
The kind of game where you keep rethinking, two or three days after the game, about those calls you should have made and did not make.
The kind of game that wants to make you quit refereeing.
Well, I got one of those.
The worst of it is that we both (the 2 referees) missed a girl kicking intentionnally another girl while being both tangled with the ball for a jumb ball (or possession arrow).The spectators saw it, another referee in the stands saw it, but we still both missed it. Therefore, we could not expel anyone.
Anyone of you live a similar situation? How do you cope with it? How do you motivate yourself to continue being a basketball referee?
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My question is did both of you close in? If you did that is probably why you missed it. If the ball is in your primary you should close in WITH YOUR WHISTLE. A Fox 40 can do wonders for stopping rough play on tie ups. The other official should observe from where they were, without closing in. Having a wider view is the key, that is why people in the stands could see it.
Stuff happens. I had a fight in a man's league a couple of weeks back. We had called fouls both ways, I called a double foul and got them together and told them to knock it off. A couple of minutes later one of the players played full back and ran over the other guy, I called a PC
foul and as I was reporting it the guy that committed the foul threw the ball at the other player. The ball struck player's teammate came after the other guy and pushed him.
The ball thrower tried to kick the pusher and the pusher missed with a punch.
Sometimes you can be on top of things and it can still turn to crap on you. Look back at what happened and see what you could have done differently, if anything, and learn from it.
Don't let it get to you, beyond making you better.
Good luck!
[Edited by blindzebra on Apr 11th, 2004 at 03:49 PM]