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Old Tue Dec 04, 2007, 07:47pm
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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You aren't going to ever get in front of the break, so fuggedaboutthat. Even if you did get in front, you couldn't possibly get deep in time to get over far enough along the endline to see who initiates any contact. You don't want to be beside the play either because you'll be straight-lined. Sooooooo.....loop out in back of the break, but far enough out of the play so that you're not gonna be interfering with a trailer, and try to take an angle that will let you see the separation between the offensive and defensive players. You want to see the paths that both are taking, and whether one of the players goes out of their straight-line path to initiate contact. You should be able to get a fair look at any contact on the shot. You also want to stay far enough away so that you can maintain a wide enough field of vision that will allow you to pick up a second breaker joining the play, and a possible pass to that breaker. This should also allow you to stay with the original breaker after the pass to see if there's a pass'n'crash while also tracking the pass.

Prayer helps too.

You'll never get into the best position. Just try to get into the best position possible.

JMVHO.
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