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Originally Posted by letemplay
I'll share my story on the thread subject.
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I'm glad you did, letemplay. Great perspective.
Here's a "for what it's worth."
A few years ago, I'm working a youth tournament with teams from all over the state. In one game, the coach is a very well respected official from another board.
I'm the T. Right in front of his bench, the point guard made a very strange shuffling move, an easy travel for me. I whistle, and the coach is aghast.
"(Bainsey), what did he do?!?"
I quickly reancted the motion to the best of my ability. (My pivot foot is always the left foot, because I have two of them.) I was a little surprised he didn't see the obvious shuffle.
The following year, this same gentleman is working a tournament game, and he has a similar travel call for foot shuffle in front of a bench. All I could do was burst out laughing!
Okay, it wasn't all I did. I found him after the game and called his attention to that travel call.
"Last year, you busted my hump at a youth tournament for the exact same call!"
He just smiled guiltily.
"You probably called in on my kid, that's why."