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Originally Posted by zeedonk
OK, I think I phrased that badly- it's more about being in a better position to make the call- if you make a call with someone's back to you, you better be in the best position to make the call, and don't guess. Our board is trying to teach us to be in the right positon, move to improve and don't guess.
I'm OK with the "see it, call it" philosophy, I was just concerned about trying to be in the right position to make a call, and being inherently suspect about making a call from behind, unless, of course, I see it clearly and I'm not guessing- but (he laughed knowingly), if I DON'T see it and I DIDN'T see it clearly and I AM guessing- I shouldn't call anything....
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zeedonk,
On a lane line drive where the offensive player has beat the defender and has him on his hip you want to walk onto the floor (not straight into the floor but at a diagonal away from the hoop so you can keep a big picture mentality, allowing you to better pick up secondary defenders, and all the while keeping yourself out of the way of the players) and not step down which will just keep putting you in a stack the more and more you step down. Also, on this type of lane line drive you want to just referee the body contact on this play and stay away from hits on the arm because as you said the back of the players are to you and 9 out of 10 times you will not be able to clearly see a hit on the arm you will just see what looks like a hit on the arm. Lastly, I need to modify my statement about hits on the arm. Once the play gets above the backboard level you then have to referee arm contact as well, due to the fact that the Lead is opposite and makes it hard for him to referee plays "up top". hope this helps.