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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
Maybe the reason we have mechanics is because not all officials can make perfect calls out of their erea. Maybe its because some officials are tired of these great officials, who make calls in their partners area, see the play different and know the call that this great official just made, who can see the whole court, JUST MADE A BAD CALL. I believe if these officials are that great then maybe they should request to officiate the game by themselves. I'm sure the assigner and the coaches and players and fans will recognize their abilities. I'm sure you have heard about the study the NBA does every year. Bottom line, in the NBA, NCAA, and HS, the rules committee has a great input on the mechanics and don't believe there are enough great officials who can referee the whole court. So they have decided to not come up with a ONE MAN MECHANIC.
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I'm not saying that the one official is expected to cover the whole court - but there are times, like in a game I was doing a couple of days ago, that my partner was very close to the person coming up the court from the backcourt, and I was lead and already at the baseline. I saw a travel, because I had a clear path through the other players, and called it. My partner never saw it, and when I asked, he was watching the player and the defender on him, and not watching his feet. I had looked at my primary area, and saw that there was no competitive matchup, nothing specific for me to keep an eye on, so I looked out and spent a little time watching the dribbler, to see where he was headed, before I looked back at my area. While looking, he stopped dribbling, and clearly traveled. There are officials who say that I should not have called it because it was outside my area. I say that if you see it, and it is obvious, and your partner missed it, call it. Otherwise, you look like a fool when no one calls an obvious travel. Not that I see everything, or any official can. But since you do have to glance around sometimes, if you catch something obvious, I would say to call it.