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Originally posted by ref18
The education officer in my board has a really neat lesson about covering the play as trail. He has an overhead with each half of the court divided into 9 squares. His philosophy is that whatever square the ball is in, if its in the trail's primary, the official should be one square beside and one square behind. That way you're close enough to see the play, but not close enough to get involved in the play if something unexpected were to happen. I think that this is a valuable posistioning technique and use it when I officiate. It really helps to eliminate situation where you get caught up in the play.
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Ref that is great advice. I'm going to use that this season. When I was at camp last month, I was told to hang back slightly from the point guard bringing the ball up in the backcourt, so as not to get caught in transition in the event of a steal and to avoid "working so hard".