Last night I worked with a partner I've never seen before. He said he has over 20 years experience (13 of it in another part of the country), but only 7 years with one of our local associations. He showed up late so we didn't have much time for a pre-game. Toward the end of the second quarter, with team B down already by 25, I made a 3 second call on B. It was perfectly legitimate.
At halftime, this guy starts lecturing me about advantage/disadvantage, based on my call. I was polite and pretended I was listening. I know that this call is a pet peeve of his commissioner (we are in different associations - this was a rec game), and they feel you should not call this if the player "is not gaining an advantage by being in the lane".
I used to think that way until I let a couple of guys who were in the lane while the play was way outside all of a sudden have inside rebounding position when an unexpected shot went up. Of course,once the shot is taken, you can't make the call.
In my association, our point is that anyone in the lane too long, by definition, gains an advantage - that's why they have the rule.
At first I thought he was referring to the fact that there was already a wide point spread and that I should cut team B some slack - and that's a different arguement. In fact, I had yelled at the kid to get out of the lane, and only made the call when he didn't (yes - he heard me), and my count had reached about 6.
How do you guys feel about advantage/disadvantage on players being in the lane too long?
BTW - this guy blew two travel calls when players were on the floor, forgot to chop the clock 3 times after made free throws and actually called both a "reach" and "over the top" fouls. I felt vindicated. Of course, my mechanics were perfect, as usual.
