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Originally posted by BktBallRef
I like many of the mechanics that the NBA uses. However, not all NBA mechanics would be good for NF and NCAA. The NBA referees are professional officials. They're training and continuing education is far greater than ours will ever be. As such, there are certain things that amatuer officials must do in order to slow us down and help us think.
You'll rarely ever see a double whistle on a block/charge in the NBA but it happens all the time in high school and college. Without the proper stopping of the clock, you get conflicting calls that get everybody in deep doo-doo.
I agree with you that the whistle is what the timer responds to when he stops the clock. But NBA officials don't call enough floor violations to warrant raising there hand to stop the clock. Besides, they use Precision Time, so thery're the ones stopping the clock anyway. Raisning our hand gives us an extra second to think about what we're going to call. I've changed many fouls to OOB calls in the time that it takes to raise my hand or fist.
NF mechanics are designed to do what many of us have difficulty doing, slowing down.
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Perfect. Officials need to understand that the NF mechanics are the easiest to understand. It might not always make perfect sense to the NCAA and NBA officials why NF does this or that. Us NF officials are not required to go to camps every year to keep our job. NF officials do not have to move up to a certain level. Look, if someone assigns us a varsity game, we do a varsity game. If you are a college official, your evaluation process is much greater. Not only do you have to have certain experience levels, you have to have other things like, job, travel arrangements, and anything else that HS officials do not need to do certain games.
I am so tired of NCAA officials and higher trying to make NF like them. If we had the training and experience that they had, we would have similar mechanics. Look to be a HS official, you have to be 18 in most cases, not a felon, and availible. Takes a lot more than that to be a NCAA official and up.
Peace