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That's about the time that I first started officiating Basketball.
In our training that year, I do remember a strong emphasis on the lead official moving along the baseline and staying out of the paint. We were told that it was a new philosophy to get better angles on rebounding and drives to the basket. However, in several games I watched that year with veteran officials, I noticed that as soon as a shot went up, the lead would "get to the hole", or move directly into the middle of the key to officiate rebounding action. When I asked some of them about it, I was told that was how it was being taught at the college level and that's how they were going to do it.
Also, bird-dogging was a very big deal then when a foul was called.
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