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Originally Posted by dacodee
Fast forward to 32 seconds left in the game... The score is White 41 - Black 42. White brings the ball up court and begins passing for an open shot. I'm the trail, opposite table. Since white is spread out, I keep my distance (practically standing 5 feet from mid court and standing on the sideline) so I can have all players in my primary within view. With about 20 seconds left on the clock, white A1 (who is about five feet in front of me) passes to A2 (who is tableside, behind the arc, free throw line extended). A2 attempts a 3 point shot and is hit on the arm by B2. I blow the whistle and black coach goes balistic. He's repeatedly screaming, "You can't make that call from there. That's your partners call." I report the foul and I notice B2 jumping up and down and he removes his jersey. I refrained from giving a T on the coach for showing his frustration, but B2 removing his jersey did not leave me any choice. A2 makes 1 of 3 foul shots and the player shooting the T's makes 1 of 2, putting white ahead by 1. White inbounds the ball and quickly turns it over. Black is now on a fast break and is fouled in the act of shooting. He misses both free throws and white gets the rebound and time runs out. White wins by 1.
I get to the locker room and the Varsity officials begin to go over what just occurred with us. They asked where the shooter was on the 3 point try. I know for a fact he was foul line extended and since I did not know if my partner had picked him up, I stayed with the shooter. My partner said that he did pick him up and he passed on the foul, thinking that B2 blocked the ball. Well, I agreed to disagree... The Varsity officials were explaining that since the shooter was in fact foul line extended, I should have held my whistle and let my partner take it.
What do you guy's think??? Since it happened so quickly and I was opposite tableside, should I have let it go? Even though I know I saw the entire play?
Note that one of the Varsity officials said, "Right or wrong, it took a lot of balls to make that call. Most officials would not have made it, even if it was right in front of them."
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In 2-man, you have coverage on the arc to the Free Throw Line extended. It sounds as if this shot was right on the boundary between the two primary areas. These situations can and do happen in 3-man as well. If you thought that the shooter was above the FT line extended, it is your call. If he was below the line, it was your partner's call. If he has one foot above the FT line and and one below, you should have discussed this situation in your pre-game.
Bottom Line: Close enough for either of you to call. You saw it, you called it. You got the call right (you did not imply that the coach was telling you that you got the call WRONG, but rather you should not have MADE the CALL). While having TWO sets of eyes on the shooter is not good, having ZERO sets of eyes on the shooter is even worse. Let's say the shooter got hammered in this case, but you BOTH thought it was in the other's primary. Just how ugly would that situation have been?
Using 2-man at the boys JV level means that you are going to miss some things. In this case, it appears as though you got it right.
P.S. I hope that you were at least moving in the direction of the play as the ball was passed within your primary area.