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Originally posted by zebraman
However, in my personal experience, I can help my partner manage the game even if he is a little green and starts to sweat when the heat gets turned up. However, I can't help him when he doesn't know the rules and makes calls incorrectly that I don't witness (because I'm always watching off ball like I'm supposed to be, of course). :-)
Z
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Man, you are obsessed over this rule thing. I do not think this discussion was started to address the importance or lack of importance over rules knowledge. Officiating has many sides to it, rules knowledge is not the most important one. If it was, assignors at the college and pro level would never move you up until you pass a test. And unless you have done both HS and college level games (sometimes Men's and Women's) you will always have challenges with rules.
I watched a young official tonight mess up on a rule, not a single person said a thing. Not a fan, not a coach, no one!! He stopped counting 10 seconds in the backcourt when the count clearly should not have ended and I think I was the only one that noticed. Well his partner noticed, but we did not take him out back and beat him senseless because of it. I told him asked him about it so he could learn from the situation and we moved on.
Man, basketball is not Football or Baseball when everything you do is based solely on a rule. In Football alone there is over 200 rules differences from NF to NCAA. Do you think the officials that do both do not scratch their head sometimes and wonder if they did things correct? Of course they do, and when they realize they messed up, they move on and learn from that experience. Most of the basketball rules that most officials have are not every day rules. And usually it has more to do with their judgement then their knowledge of that particular rule. I have personally been caught off guard when those unusual things happen in a basketball game, more than I did not understand or have knowledge of the rule.
There is a reason you here the phrase, "call the obvious."
Peace