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Originally posted by EddieLopez
I am a first year as I have mentioned in other posts, all but 8 games total under my belt at any level. So things are slowly but surely getting better as every quarter and every minute passes. I am really excited and love the opportunities, like more than I ever thought I would. Anyway, tonight I did a JV girls public(Makes a diff here in Miami versus private)and my partner was a 3 yr official. At the half he was amazed at my first half of work, he kept asking me if I was kidding him about the 8 game thing. I honestly felt, no disrespect to him, that I was the better official out there tonight. I found myself calling things somewhat out of my primary, calls I felt were obvious and needed to reward the visiting team that was always down but scrapping. What do you all think about that.
Also 2 calls I had questions about:
1. On an inbounds for the home team, A1 passes to A2 while A2 attempts to go out of bounds from the other side to inbound to a teammate(The set inbound play if you will).
This is a girls' jv for god's sake I am thinking to myself, I get caught offguard and call violation. Home team coach is perplexed and I signal violation A2 was partially inbounds on the catch therefore inbounds on pass from A1 and out of bounds. I made this up on the fly and was not 100% although I felt it was the right one.
2. Visiting team inbounds on the floor I am the lead and halfway to A1 walking upcourt to pick it up, my partner calls 5 sec. I am like what? Visiting coach is calling me asking why did he call 5, I ignore him, he calls me again and I say,"The call was down there coach-missed it". I knew my partner made the wrong call. On dead ball I play dumb and ask him about it, he explains that the ball has to be touched in 5 sec., I think to myself" Cannot be" and say oh ok cool.
What do you all think?
Thanks
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I have a couple of things for you. First of all welcome and congrats on your previous eight games. To answer your first question, we have no idea if you needed to make the calls you did. We would actually have to have seen the game. But if you think you needed to make them and did...good for you!
Secondly, if I am working with an experienced official and the coach wants to know what call my partner just made, I usually say, ask them. Now some people say that I am selling out my partner, but I talk about this in pregame. If a coach wants to know what I just called, I would rather explain it to them then have my partner guess. Also, don't do that with a less seasoned official.
Since you are a new official you can play dumb after the game and ask your partner more about that play and to show you what he is talking about. Also to get ahead, this is the best advice I have ever recieved:
1. Watch more games than you officiate.
2. Practice your mechanics constantly (in a mirror if you can)
3. Get yourself on tape and have someone experienced help you break it down.
4. Don't ever forget your love for the game.