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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
At first I thought the only reason the NCAA Women's went to NBA/WNBA mechanics was because of the WNBA officials wanted to use their mechanics to make it easy for themselves. I have since learned (in my opinion) the game is officiated better using the Women's mechanics. While i do believe there are a lot of great Men's officials, I also believe Men's side could improve their game by using the NBA mechanics. Please don't misunderstand, it not the officials, its the mechanics that need improvement.
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Mechanics have very little to do with the way the game is "actually" called. It has more what makes since and what gives better coverage. The WNBA or NCAA Mechanics are a good fit for the NCAA Men's game, in my opinion. They want the Lead to cover things that do not fit the rules or the speed of the Men's game. See in the NBA, they do not have 5 second counts. The 3 Person in the Men's game was created so that the Lead could concentrate on post play. If you change to the NBA way, then you take that Lead away from the post play (which they have the best look at btw) and make them look at out of bounds plays and 3 point shots that will never be taken. The NBA can do that because there rules are different, their 3 point line is further out, the officials are full-time employees of the NBA, the review an extensive amount of video (the NBA gives every official a labtop and access to a secure website to review plays all over the league each night) and the rotation process in the WNBA and NCAA Women's does not fit because of the speed of skip passes and ball movement. I just do not think it fits.
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