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Originally posted by zebraman
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Originally posted by Rickref
I was told at a camp to break the game down in 4 minute sections and concentrate hard for each section.
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I suppose that is meaningful to some, but sayings like that always make me laugh. Why not break it down into 16 two minute sections. Why not break it down into 32 one minute sections. Or maybe, just concentrate for one big 32 minute section.
Yeah, I know.. I'm being sarcastic and the point is to maintain focus, but some of these "ref sayings" are pretty inane when you really think about them.
One time an official told me that the middle of the third quarter was the most important part of the game for us to set the tone. I'm still trying to figure that one out. Maybe I'm just too dense.
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What can happen is that as a quarter or half progresses, you tend to slide along a little more. You see it with teams, I see it with myself at times. You have moments where you lose that sharp focus you had at the outset of a period. When my team looks like it is having that issue, it is TO time. Hopefully my team and I don't have it at the same time or it is goodnight time.
So I see the subdivision as a checkpoint to say, "am I maintaining focus."
Don't undrstand the third quarter thing for certain, but I do think that everybody thinks about setting a tone in the first quarter - everybody is discovering how the game is going to be played/called/etc. Maybe this is just a way of emphasizing that you need to start the second half stron to make it clear how the rest of the game is going to go. Certainly the third quarter can be critical in determining a team's fate - frequently the way the third quarter goes can swing a game one way or another.