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Old Fri Sep 28, 2007, 01:02am
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Originally Posted by refnrev
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And if I was R I would want you to call it. I worked one night with a tremendous official...best I've ever worked with. She tried to give me a discreet signal for BA but I was too dense to figure out what she was doing. I'd want her to call what I miss. NOW, having said that I've also worked with some U's that were way too whistle happy and called a lot of things they shouldn't have because they were not watching their primary area and walking all over mine. If the U wants to run the entire court then we'll need to have a talk.
That's the nice thing about a back row attack or block - it can be called retroactively. Sure it's better to call it immediately when it happens, but you can let the rally play out & still go back & get it. Heck, you can even wait until they go back to their rotation positions, see where the player in question lines up and then call it.

The danger with the U making the BRA call too quickly is that their primary focus for back row purposes is tracking the position of the players. The other part of the equation is judging the height of the ball, - that's the R's job, and they almost always have the better angle to make this judgement. With the BRB it's where the player's hands are that's important - again something that may be difficult for the U to see. If the U is going to blow the whistle on this they have to be 200% sure it's right - maybe or close doesn't cut it. It would be real embarassing to have the U blow the whistle & signal BRA at the same time the R is waving it off with the safe signal.
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