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Originally Posted by doubleringer
Jeff, I understand where you're coming from and wanting to get the call right, that is what all of us want. What I like to think about is why we have primary coverage areas. We have primary coverage areas because those are the parts of the floor we can see and get good angles with. When you go out of your primary you probably don't have the best look at the whole play. At camps this summer I've heard statistics that when we go across the lane as L we are wrong much more than we are right. That's why we have primary coverages.
Last season I helped out another veteran crew in the area. I knew them only by reputation before we met for the ride. Early in the game I was L and one of the veterans was C. There was a HUGE crash to the floor on a drive around the second lane space opposite from me. It looked like crap from my perspective and there wasn't a whistle. Being new to the crew, I passed and asked about it at a dead ball. The defensive player took a dive and it was no-called. Had I gone out of my primary to make what looked like the right call to me (probably a PC) I would have been dead wrong.
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was this "no-call" confirmed through video breakdown after the game? While I believe and trust my partners, tape can totally change the story and those tapes are the ones that keep getting replayed and replayed on either TV or in the coaches office. So although your partner says flop on the court doesn't totally make it so. The tape has turned me into a liar plenty of times!