Thread: Tough Game
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Old Sat Jan 16, 2010, 04:39pm
mbyron mbyron is offline
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I agree with what's been said so far. Try not to be discouraged by the awful behavior of one partner. It's your misfortune to have encountered this bum so early in your career.

I will add that it's important to separate in your mind what you did badly from how you were treated badly. This game might just deserve throwing away; but if you want to learn from it, try to pick 2 or 3 things to look up. Get those right in the next game, and you will have improved.

I will also comment that girls JV is often difficult to officiate: there's so much contact, and that pressures officials to call based on advantage/disadvantage. That's a concept that most novices are still learning (hell, many advanced officials are still learning it!), and so you're bound to make lots of mistakes. Just realize it's part of the territory, and a rite of passage.
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