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Originally posted by AK ref SE
I have had a partner over the last couple years, that everytime that I call with him, It seems that we are never on the same page. At first I tried to adjust to his game, Well those games just got uglier and uglier. So I decide to call my game the best way I knew how. I watch my primary area, called what I saw, did not try to even things up or make calls that simply weren't there. If he had 20 calls and I had none or vice versus so be it. There will partners out there that we are in complete harmony with, and then we will have partners that are not. Just call your game to the best of your ability and it will all come out in the end. I agree with the person who made the comment about the evaluator in the crowd, because that happened to me early on. I tried to mirror my partner and I got chewed up and spit out, and was told by the evaluator that you need to deal with your game!
AK ref SE
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I had a scrimmage last year where I called 6 fouls and my partner called none for the entire half. If I mirrored my partner, I would have called nothing. Some of my calls were in dual areas and my partner did not blow their whistle for anything except obvious out of bounds calls. My partner made a comment to me and said "I do not call the same game as you do." Ya think? I am of "the no harm no foul" ideal (not serious you get the idea). I do not just call contact as a foul. And almost every foul I called was in line with the rules (women's college, handchecking for example). But in all fairness to my partner, I had more experience than they did. But it would did not look good if I did not call anything that day. That means we would not have a single foul called the entire half.
Peace