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Originally posted by Snaqwells
Mregor is right. Running in like the C official in the original post can only disturb the chemistry of a crew. If a partner doesn't look for help on a play where he has the angle, best stay out of it.
Had one last weekend where I was the lead in a press, so I stop at about half court. A-1 got trapped in the far corner from me, right in front of my partner. Ball gets loose, and B-1 grabs the ball and throws it off A-1's leg out of bounds. To me, it looks clearly to be B's ball. Partner signals for ball to go to A. In my mind, I thought she missed it, but I let it go because she didn't look for help.
Talked about it at half-time. B-1 was standing out of bounds when she grabbed the ball. I would have been wrong to jump in, and I would have made the wrong call.
snaqs
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I tend to disagree here. Communication and teamwork strengthen the chemistry of the crew not disrupt it. Again having talked about this in your pregame, ball goes OOB on leads line, lead sees not tip and gives signal. C who had a good look at entry pass from weak side (his primary) knows there was a tip. C gives sharp blast on whistle: "partner I had a defensive tip"
A. Thanks C the ball will stay here.
B. Yes but it then deflected off of A B's ball play on.
By not communicating what you see on the court you are jeapordizing what we as officials do out there. Have a good pre-game, feel comfortable w/ your partner and above all GET THE CALL RIGHT. The game of basketball is not for us officials to show how perfect we are and balloon our ego's it is for the players. Get it right for their sake.