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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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Originally posted by SF
After you pull your fist down from calling the foul you're supposed to indicate the nature of the foul with a preliminary signal. (hold, block, hand check, etc.)
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Maybe in your world, but none of us do that around here. You'll find, after being in this awhile, that evaluators are pretty arbitary when it comes to things like this.
There are some places that worry about how well you call the games rather than bullcrap things like this.
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Rich, I'm not sure why you're writing this off as bullcrap.
Apparently SHE did well enough in what could have been a tough situation that the only negative comment from HER evaluator is SHE should work on giving a preliminary. If an evaluator came into the locker room & told me he saw *nothing* I could improve on I would wonder just what the hell he bothered to watch me for. And if he told me I should think about giving a better prelim when blowing a foul I would damn sure work on giving a prelim when blowing a foul.
edit - oops...just realized the S in SF stands for Sara. 
[Edited by Dan_ref on Feb 7th, 2005 at 12:35 PM]
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Because it lacks substance.
I guarantee you that a good evaluator can find something in my game, your game, Sara's game that will help us be better officials. Get better position, looks at plays, help with judgment. If the "preliminary signal" comment was designed to keep Sara from rushing to the table, great. If it's just because she didn't give a hack signal on the spot of the foul, well, it's not a terribly useful comment, IMO.
The people on this thread that say you "can't go wrong" using the officials' manual are not entirely correct -- if my evaluators/association/assignors would rather use mechanics contrary to the manual, I'd better learn how to adapt. Fortunately, I don't have to worry too much about this as I don't receive assignments via assocations.