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Originally Posted by tomegun
OK, maybe my mentality has been formed from many camps and hearing many officials speak. I've been told to know where your partners are and have a good idea of what they called. If a play is clearly in my primary and I'm sure that they have the same thing there is no eye contact necessary. Unless we are talking about secondary defenders, which I wasn't talking about initially, I would like to think I'm a big boy and can handle mine. I'm not really talking about anything big that I would get pissy about, I'm just talking about a routine play, clearly in my area with a double whistle. Maybe I'm living in a ArizonaLasVegasWashingtonDCMarylandNorthernVirgini aMississippi bubble and this only happens to me. If so, boy do I envy you guys since you don't have to deal with this on a regular basis.  |
I have grown to love double whistles. Part of the reason it adds to the credibility of the calls and the officials on the calls. And that has been taught to me at camps several times. That being said, usually double whistles come in the middle of the court near the lane or above the circle. And considering my state has had three-person mechanics for all playoff games since 97-98 and that does not include regular season and tournament games, many officials have been indoctrinated in the system for a long time now. I do not work with many ball-watchers anymore. I also tend to work with a lot of experienced officials that work college ball or have been working post season games for some time. The major issue is not calling out of someone's area where I live. It might be about getting a call right, but not calling out of someone's area.
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