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Originally posted by RookieDude
Ya think? 
My point is...you've got 37 total games under your new pleated pants.
Sh**** veteran or not...why piss him off?
Wait untill you've got just a little more experience before you start criticizing veterans to other officials in your association.
(That's one of the reasons to post on this forum...you can let off steam without the politics involved.)
JRut, if this guy needs plumed up...let veterans like yourself do it...not some 1st year guy...IMO.
Having said all that...I could care less what this new guy wants to do...maybe it will work for him...again, good luck.
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Your dissent has been noted. Thanks. And you sure have a strong opinion for someone who doesn't care what I do (and I'm a second-year guy, FWIW - does that mean I can go a half-step further, or a full step, or what? When do I get the right to be a part of your little reindeer games, exactly?).
I'm not talking about expecting NBA Finals Game 7 effort on a sixth-grade girls game here, folks. I'm talking about expecting sixth-grade girls effort on a sixth-grade girls game. That's all I and my 37 games under my new pleated pants have a right to expect out of anybody.
I should have said "If I piss off
this veteran, so what?" As JRut said, not all veterans are created equally. He's been around me, ask him how deferential I am to veterans and willing to learn. Someone shows me they deserve respect, they get it. And anyone who thinks that someone who's relatively new at this has to walk two steps behind with his head down and say "Thank you sir, may I have another?" to someone else just by virtue of the fact the other person has been working longer doesn't exactly earn it, either. If that's me being out of school, then so be it.
But they don't get it simply because they're on the court with me, especially since you never get a second chance to make a first impression.