Where did you get that from? I never said that knowledge of rules is not needed at all, of course it is needed. But if you want to sit around and go over every situation that can happen in the rulebook and casebook and obsess over all the situations in them and think you are going to be a better official because of it, you are doing yourself a disservice. The reason is, because that is not how you are going to be judged. You are going to be judged on your foul calling and game management. Evaluators are not going to evaluate you on your knowledge of correctable errors. They will expect you to do things to prevent the correctable errors from happening at all. And if you have a correctable error, you did not use good game management to prevent it. In football if you call a penatly, you have to decide what penatly you called and how to enforce it. Depending on whether it is HS, college, or NFL will determine your application. You do not have much to do after that. In basketball you have to decide if there is a violation or a foul to begin with and after you call the foul and violation you have some options (like shooting, not shooting, T or no T). Your judgement on when and how to apply the rules are going to be a bigger factor in your evaluation than anything.
Final example: I was working a summer tournament and called T for a defender slapping the backboard. It was very clear that the defender slapped the backboard, but after the call I was questioned on whether it was intentional or not and was asked how I came to that conclusion. Basically the shooter attempted a layup on the left side of the rim, while the defender (after not being able to get back and make a real attempt at defending the shot) slammed the backboard on the right side. The defender did so really late after the shot, but I was still questioned about my judgement. After explaining the situation the evaluator agreed, but he was not questioning the wording of the rule, but the judgement that I came to that conclusion by.
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Originally posted by Gary Brendemuehl
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Originally posted by JRutledge
And that is why they do not officiate game in shorts, they where there entire uniform like a normal game.
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