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Originally Posted by dave30
I guess I'm not half as good a referee as I thought I was!
Maybe I need to go back to the YMCA games!
I just like to try and get a flow going to a game. I don't like to be over-officious which to me is completely going by the book every time, all the time. I cannot call a foul on a passer when I can tell the pass is going to a wide open teammate for a layup (even though technically it is a foul). If a player barely touches the line throwing the ball in after an opponent's basket with no backcourt pressure.....it isn't that big a deal to ignore it (if he steps on it or in the court..call it...use common sense). stuff like that. Am I that wrong in thinking that way? No one that assigns my games have ever had a problem with the way I officiate....always get a high ranking....so I must be doing something right. Maybe I just don't translate on the computer well......
I stick to the rules. I enforce the game. I manage the game. I keep it fair,.. try not to let anyone get hurt. Not every foul is a foul in my opinion and different games call for different styles of officiating. Some players can bang a little, some can't. Advantage/disadvantage is important isn't it?
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Dave30,
Jurassic doesn't understand what common sense officiating is, he backs every TINY thing he does and says by the rulebook and thinks it is ok and in fact it is, he can never be told he is completely and utterly wrong (like he does to those common sense officials on the forum day in and day out) if he uses the rulebook for everything.
Here is a good story in which I did the right thing by rule but didn't employ common sense officiating like I should have and screwed a team over or so I thought and my crew thought and my supervisor thought.
It is a 2 point ball game with team B down and Team A throwing the ball in having to go the length of the floor with about 7.2 left in the game. As Team A is trying to inbound I am at C opposite in a pressing situation by Team B. A3 being guarded by B3 near the division line runs backward like he is going for the long pass and then starts to run up toward the ball, B3 grabs him and I call an INTENTIONAL FOUL. By rule I am correct in doing so because it was a foul that kept the clock from running, but it was wrong in common sense officiating. The kid didn't hug him because they knew he was the worse free throw shooter or foul him maliciously. My supervisor even got onto me after the game and as soon as he did or even before he did I knew I had screwed up.
Dave30 I understand exactly what you are trying to say and agree with you but if you don't go by the rule book on this forum, you will inevitably get eaten up by the shark(s).
P.S. If a kid loses the ball because of a bump and it goes off of that kid I have a foul, regardless of how slight. I'm not sacrificing a missed OOB call to "save a foul", but on that note never say never. I'm sure there will be a time or have been times where I didn't think the bump was sufficient enough for him to lose control or I just know from watching that the kid was a bad dribbler and shouldn't have been dribbling in the first place.