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Rocky, exactly! But people continue to say, "get it right" and then, "trust your partner." Huh? Do those two go together? The art of 3-person calls for an official to dynamically change their focus from one area to the next. Locking in on the ball is asking for disaster. The final decree of "get it right" before leaving the locker room is like giving someone license to watch the ball. The system (3-person) is set up to "get it right"; we don't need to look all over the court to make that call to save our partners for 40 minutes. Trust in partners and trust in the system raise the probability of correct calls. Doing otherwise will lower that probability. I have also noticed an increased number of calls across the paint on ordinary plays that shouldn't be dual.
Ref1 (R1) - "what do you look at on the court?"
Ref2 (R2) - "well, uh, I look at my primary. What do you look at?"
R1 - "I see it all."
True story between two refs that have worked in the last week or so!
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