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Originally posted by tomegun
This is what I'm saying, all this talk about getting it right is giving people a license to ball watch. What is easier to watch the ball or be desciplined enough to watch your primary? I think it is harder to watch the primary but there is someone, somewhere that might look up to you and emulate the things you do and say. They will eventually watch the ball too or should I say they will take a peek? Don't get offended if you think your way is mechanically sound. IMO, it isn't.
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See Tom, here's the deal.
"My way" is essentially "your way". We both work about the same level, we both attend roughly the same camps with the same clinicians, Well, maybe I haven't been tainted by the NBA mentality, but I am 110% positive that given this game situation you and I would be standing in the same spot, refereeing the same area and making the same decision based on the play we saw. But you keep saying "my way" gives license to ball watch and "your way" is mechanically sound.
What I get from reading about "your way" is that you prefer the Soviet Army style of officiating: this is my 10 square feet of floor to watch and by God my orders are to watch it and I will watch it regardless of what's going on elsewhere. Don't be offended if I think your way is mechanically unsound, I happen to prefer being aware of more than my own 10 square feet of gym floor. Whether I make a call based on something I see outside of my primary is another question entirely. And this thread happens to be about whether or not the L should reach across the floor to make a game saving call. And IMO, if the L has positioned himself properly to make this game saving call (ie he's not standing on the endline with his thumb up his @ss) then he needs to take it if no one else does & he is 110% sure.
So let's just agree to disagree on this.
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btw...and this will hopefully be my last word...if A1 was coming down the side opposite to the C (L & T's side) would you have a problem with the C reaching across to take the call? I hope not. And to my mind this play is similar.
[Edited by Dan_ref on Jan 6th, 2006 at 11:59 AM]