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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Don't tell anyone, though. I've made wrong calls before, too. I once convinced my partner that anyone could shoot free throws for an injured player, not just his replacement.
Here's the kicker. That was the wrong call, and one made by a 19 year-old rookie who thought he knew better than his partner.
Here's the bonus. I can admit it was a bad call, even though no one ever mentioned it to me again. No one ever wrote me up for it.
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I'm going to let you in on a secret. While researching the code on the APTI, I came across a case play where I totally kicked one. It was a boys varsity game and I was the R and I really wanted to jump toss the ball, good jumpers in the game. Well, in the pregame, one of the good jumpers dunked the ball. Stupid, I was looking the other way but my partner caught it. I tried to get my partner to let it go, so that I could still do the toss, he said no. Well, what I did was a player on the opposition team touch the rim on the way down as the teams was coming off the court for the introductions. Wah-la! I got a T on you for grabbing the rim, therefore making it a double T and we start the game with a jump. Classic, I got my jump ball back! Right! Woops, we did it wrong but I didn't realize until several years later. Most officials might not have something like that happen in a career of officiating. Therefore, you would not know the unique difference in the rule.
But you know what. I'm not going to sit here and brawl beat another official on this forum because he did it wrong. I would never ever, as long as I officiate do that to another official, even if I didn't like him. That is the difference between me and you. I have no malice in my heart to want to beat others down because they are not at my level.