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Originally posted by Tim Roden on 01-12-2000 02:30 PM
Consistancy can be gained in two words. Experience and Camps. Also, watch what your partner calls and call the same thing.
I agree - or tell your partner to quit calling something a certain way if he is wrong. (Of course, I suggest that you know this guy personally before you go giving him tips on officiating!)
It's always good to talk between quarters, at halftime, other time-outs, etc. with your partner to make sure you are both on the same page.
With all that being said, please don't make a call on one end just because something that "looked like it" happened on the other end. If you have a player control on one end and then you have a similar crash at the other, but the defender did not have legal guarding position (slid under an airborne shooter for example), please make the correct call - a block. Calling a player control foul in this instance is not "being consistant" - it is just being consistently bad.