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Originally posted by tomegun
I can understand where you are coming from so in return I hope you can understand where some of us are coming from. I'm trying to use the terms used in the conferences I'm in. I have been around long enough to here things like "see the consequences of the ball" which is basically the same thing. However, I'm not going to cause a fuss because I heard the same thing in a different way. I also think the term "game interrupter" is a shorter way to say it. Finally, it should be our responsibility to understand current terms. Players do things and say things that they didn't do or say 10 years ago. In life old things are made new with different names. What would your suggestion be to combat this since you have brought up the fact that it isn't something new and revolutionary? I think the easiest thing to do would be to roll with it.
JR, now explain "lah me" to someone who is originally from the midwest but has lived in Alaska, Mississippi, Arizona, Nevada and Maryland.
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"Game interrupter" is a shorter way to say "cheap foul"? Nah, it's just a different way.
Why would I even think of combating it? Hell, I agree fully with the concept, and have done so for a helluva long time. I gotta say that it does help if you really know what a "game interrupter" really is though.
Tom, I pretty much agree with everything that you said above. I understand the use of current terms. I make it a point to try and do so. I don't think that anyone should ever stop learning, and I don't think that it really matters who you're learning from either- as long as what you're learning is new, germane and useful. I also know that the game is constantly changing and evolving also. What was an automatic foul 20 years ago may be acceptable now as incidental contact. What was a technical foul 20 years ago might not be now either. What kinda gets to me though is new officials who have gone to maybe one camp in their entire life, have never been close to calling a regular season high school varsity game let alone a college game of any type, don't really understand the
basic rules and mechanics of our avocation, but solemnly regurgitate and preach some concept that they shouldn't even dream about using before they get some spit built up in their whistles. And a concept that they don't fully understand in the first place either; a concept that probably also isn't meant for the level of ball that they will be officiating anyway. NBA rules, theories, concepts and philosophies aren't germane to the FED game, believe it or not, and most of them don't fit in with NCAA philosophies either imo. And... then having a brand new official kinda intimate that anyone who has the temerity to disagree with them has to be old and out-of-touch,well, that's simply called "trying to run before you know how to walk" imo.
End of long-winded rant.
Lah me = Oh My = WTF= you gotta be sh!tting me = anything that you want it to mean.
Generic term I picked up off of the baseball board. Don't really know why I use it. Just seems appropriate to my weird sense of humor sometimes.