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Originally posted by JRutledge:
Experience, experience, experience!!! The more you officiate, the more aware of the situations you are in. You only get this by doing games and getting experience. You should after every foul or stoppage of play give a quick look at the scoreboard and see how many fouls are on the board. Also, if your head is in the game, you should know at some point when you are at least close to the bonus. When you finally get in the bonus you just simply tell your partner who the shooter is and then go report your foul. The more experience you get the easier this becomes. Not much else you can say than that.
Yeah, Rut,
It certainly does get easier when you no longer have to remember where the table is, remember to go around the players and not through them, remember the proper mechanic you are gonna use for a signal.
Yup, experience lets 95% of the reporting automatic and you don't even have to think about it anymore. It just happens.
mick