Rainmaker, how do you know you are old enough to be my mother? You tell me how old you are and I will tell you if you are old enough.
It is unfortunate that you assume, from some discussions about basketball, that I need to apply your motherly advice to my life. I'm open-minded enough that your statement alone made me start to think about some of those possibilities enough that I got dizzy
I will have to call my wife now!
I understand everything you said but well written words of advice do not make what you say true. The same can be said for what I posted. However, I do have the experience (in different parts of the country which is turning into a positive thing) in games, camps and clinics to say that in Phoenix, Mississippi, Las Vegas, California (limited) and the east coast "just get it right" is not needed. Getting it right is assumed and in the places I've mentioned, which your area spills into during summer camps, saying that gives refs a reason to look all over the court. I guess the other possiblity would be a ref watches the ball sometimes. Everything doesn't have 100 possibilities and this might be one of those things. Have I been guilty of watching the ball? Certainly. Have you? So the question is does that statement give license to watch the ball. I think, to an extent beyond dual coverage, that it does. I also think this isn't a good thing since ball watching is already in the game too much. I guess you think it doesn't or it has no effect on a ref watching the ball or not. That is cool. We can agree to disagree. I hope we aren't debating whether watching the ball is OK or not.
[Edited by tomegun on Aug 12th, 2004 at 10:23 AM]