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Originally Posted by fiasco
Had one of those games last night where I couldn't get into a rhythm, nothing on my end seemed to flow and my partner and I made some serious mental mistakes.
Luckily, it was just a jamboree/scrimmage. Not that that should deter me from doing my best work.
I don't know what was wrong with me. My mechanics were jumbled, I was second-guessing myself all game and walked off the floor feeling like a complete pile.
Midway through the fourth quarter, I call a foul on B12. As I'm going to report, my partner is getting ready to take the ball out of bounds while all of Team A's players sub out and a fresh 5 come into the game. Then the table proceeds to tell us we're in the bonus (which we should have known already, see above). A shooter steps to the line and neither my partner nor I bother to remember or recognize that the shooter subbed out and one of his replacements has taken his place at the foul line. I think the varsity coach was trying to pull a fast one on us, and it worked. We didn't even recognize it happened until one of the other officials observing pointed it out to us at the end of the game.
Anyway, I'm glad last night is over and I have four games this week to help me forget...and improve.
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I don't know about the rest of the people here, but this is why I worked 5 scrimmages the week before the season started (I got paid for 3 of them). I work no basketball between March and November (except camps and maybe a refresher before a camp) and I'd rather be shaking off the rust then than during my first real game.
First game was Saturday night and I felt pretty good. Probably not so much without those scrimmages. 4 games this week. Bring it on.
Gotta turn the page. We all have nights we'd like back.