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Originally posted by JRutledge
I totally agree in thoery you should not call things you do not see. I agree that in a 2 person game it can be even more difficult to call many things with so much to cover. But I will say this. You will call things you do not see all the time. Or at least not see the entire play. You might see the very end and have to make a split second decision of what actually happen. So in other you might see a player get completely knocked to the floor and not see how they got there completely. But in a 2 person game, you might have to make some kind of call anyway. In 3 Person it is much easier to see everything from the beginning to the end. In 2 Person you might see the "second action" and not the first and have to make a call. It is just one of those flaws with the 2 Person system.
I do not know if anyone does baseball here, but even with 2 umpires you will have to make some sacrifices and make a call one way or another. The It is obviously more ideal to have 4 umpires who can cover the field much better, but when there is only two of you, you have to make the best of a not so great situation.
Peace
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I had a situation happen earlier this season I'll put out there. I'm sure it will make me look incompetent, but hey, I'm pretty good at that:
2-whistle. I'm trail. Girl drives down the lane and right at the key moment, a defender screens me from the ball handler. Just as I take a step forward, the player goes down in a heap.
I hesitate, waiting for my partner to bail my sorry self out, and then....I blow my whistle and call a block on the girl that has her leg right about where it would need to be to trip the driver on the way by.
I made the right call, I know, because the girl put her hand up like they used to have to in the old days.
My fault I got screened, but I figure it would be worse to not call anything in this situation than to make an educated guess.
Beat me up now
Rich