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Old Fri Jan 28, 2005, 02:59pm
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zebraman
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Originally posted by JRutledge


Rich was disagreeing with the common wisdom in this post. Challenge Rich on what he said. But that has nothing to do with the comments that everyone else that advocated looking at the rim said. Looking at the rim and looking at the supports are two different things.

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Double sigh. And if you look at who I replied to before you and Dan decided that there was nothing in these posts about support wires, you'll see that it was Rich...

So let's see... I replied to Rich about the support wire issue. Dan said that I must not have read any posts. Then you agreed that I didn't read any posts because there was nothing about support wires. So I point out that Rich mentioned support wires. So now you're telling me that I should have replied to Rich. But Rich is who I did reply to. Hello? Anyone there?

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What I, and what I believe Jeff & Rich are talking about here is each official being aware of the entire court to the extent possible. The entire court includes play at and above the rim. Sometimes you can see more than other times. If you're good you can position yourself to see a lot more than someone not so good can. You can be aware of everything on the court and still restrict your calls to your primary/secondary. Sometimes you need to go out of your area, Rich gave an example of when this awareness is useful in keeping the crew from f@cking up a call big time by going completely out of your area.

You waltzed in wondering who's watching the rebounding while we're staring at the wires above the backboard. That is why I said you didn't read the posts.
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