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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by tomegun
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Originally posted by Camron Rust
next matchup...whatever. It's just a new phrasing of the same philosophies started by someone trying to make it seem like they've had some new insight that no one else has.
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Camron, do you really think that is why this other official told us this? When he said it, I didn't take it that way because in reality, we ref the matchup. Can we get past this notion of someone supposedly making a new phrase and look at this for what it is? What do we do on the court, ref the D or ref the matchup? Since we ref the matchup, why can't we say we ref the matchup? The only thing I thought about when I heard this was it makes sense. I still don't understand the reluctance.
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Tom, what you call "reffing the match-up" is exactly the same principle that I was taught 40 years ago when it was called "see the whole play". We were taught to try and get a wide enough view to see not only what the ballhandler and primary defender were doing, but also how help-defenders and screeners could affect that play. That concept evolved through some other buzzwords into "ref the defense", which has now morphed into "ref the match-up".
Iow, same-old, same-old. As I said, they're just reinventing the wheel imo. There's nothing the matter with that either because the principle used is as sound and valid now as it was 40 years ago. It just ain't really anything new imo, is all.
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I think the term you used 40 years ago is more complete than ref the defense. I think "see the whole play" is a better term than ref the defense.
It might be the same old thing to us but someone else could take ref the defense literally and miss other things. I'm just repeating something I was told, but as you can tell, if you want to call it "see the whole play" I'm not going to get all upset because I think it is a good term too. It isn't about whether the messenger is trying to big time (my words, not someone else's) me, it is about the game and officiating.