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Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

I've done some three-man in scrimmages so I wasn't too uncomfortable with that. One team was playing a zone, so the opponents were changing sides with the ball quite a bit, and it took me a bit to figure out when to crossover as the lead. I didn't know where to stand on the timeouts but my partners helped me with that. I had a couple double whistles--one for OOB on "my" sideline when I was the lead, and another for a player-control foul in the lane, but the drive was from the C's side and the contact was in the middle so he took it. Fortunately I held my signals in both cases and deferred.

I got good feedback from my partners throughout the game and felt like I had a good one. It was close for two quarters, but the visitors scored 28 in the third and ended up winning by 25 or so. Late in the third, I called a player-control foul against the visitors. The coach didn't like the call at all, but I'm pretty sure I got it. The defender was moving laterally and then had to hop in front of the ball-handler, but the contact came after the defender had re-established and before the ball-handler left the ground to shoot. Coming out of the break between quarters I took a few seconds to ask the coach what he saw on that play and we had a good quick back-and-forth about what we each saw. The next time down the court he told me that he appreciated me asking him, which was nice. I've been working on interacting with the coaches a bit more when appropriate and that felt like a good one.

When the game ended I was on a high that I'm still coming off of!

Congrats! Still looking for my first Boys V. I'm only 2nd year so I still need some seasoning (Morton's is good.)