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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by refTN
I saw what I wrote when I submitted it, but i was just hoping, and I don't know why, that everyone would think I was talking about my area.
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Apology noted, refTN. However I just can't believe either that the majority of Tennessee officials doing high school ball are really doing such a poor job identifying and calling traveling. I feel that your remarks may be doing them a dis-service also. That's just my opinion though and I'm not in or from Tennessee. I also have to place on the record my feelings that someone whose total officiating experience basically consists of a few middle school games isn't really qualifed to be making such judgements about their fellow officials anyway. Again, that's just my opinion though. Don't mind me. Just put me down as another grumpy old guy and ignore me.
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I think you think that all I have done, is middle school games and regular season ones at that. I have done finals games of 16 and under aau boys and girls. I have reffed NBA players. Although I have never officiated a high school regular season game, I have reffed better and more athletic players than the ones I will ref in the regular season. I understand where your coming from though. I have watched in the last year alone where late in the game a high school official miscalled a walk when it never was.
Ex. I was at my alma mater, and we are horrible but had a chance to win. There is about 2 seconds left when a player on our team gets the ball, takes a power dribble to the hole. the defender keeps following the ball in the offenseive players hands instead of staying in between the man and the goal. So our player pivots a 180 degrees comes off his pivot by taking a big step to go underneath the basket, but never puts the pivot foot back down until it is out of his hand, and they call a walk and then the horn sounds. That is never a walk in grammar school, high school, college, NBA. We (i mean my area) rarely get that call right.
I can see someone saying I'm bad though, because if I see something that, to me, is inconclusive and I could not discern whether it was or was not a walk, I let it go,and I can see where someone would say that what I am doing is wrong by not calling it. Once again I guess it just the philosophy that your assosciation has, and I don't fully know my assosciation's philosophies yet, but I will hopefully understand them by the start of the season this year.