[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by Doug
this is interesting, i was reading this post the other day, thinking, it will never get this serious w/ me...hoping... and BOOM, today it did. i reported, Green, 24, did the mechanic (handcheck) and the scorer just gave me a blank stare. i did it agian, and asked him if he got all of it, and he just looked at me,and then finally said, yes, i had it b4 you reported it, i knew who the foul was on, it made me kind of irritated... i asked him if he could at least smile and nod at me, and he did, so i got a blank stare w/ a smile, and a nod every time i reported a foul. It was interesting... i didn't even know what to do other than smile back, it was odd. why do some scorers feel that they must do everything, including the poss. arrow, b4 we call it, crazy

Doug (or so we think)

At lower level games (where this happens more than at the hgher level games), I used to make a point to tell the scorekeeper to wait for us to report because we sometimes changed our minds between the time we called the foul and the time we reported it.