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Well said, Tim! At higher levels, the game is easier to officiate but the challenge comes in handling specific situations and coaches.
Zebra also hit it right on the proverbial head. At lower levels of basketball, specifically girls, all kinds of weird things happen and in some cases it isn't even the players. In fact, I just had the "privilege" of working some AAU games over the weekend, 6th grade girls to be exact. A girl goes down with a turned ankle, so I beckon the coach. His response to me, "you missed two reaches and that's why my girl is hurt." Now when was the last time you saw a girl turn an ankle because the defense reached, whatever that is supposed to mean?
Sometimes the coaches are not a whole lot brighter at that level either, which doesn't make the game any easier to officiate.
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