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Without new officials the sport would be lost. I have been an active official, educator and clinition since the early 60's.The experienced guys have to WANT to work with the novices. I f they don't, they shouldn't be assigned to those games. When so assigned I feel you have to trust each other-call your own areas and learn to take the heat for your own calls and no-calls. Only in truly obvious situations should either official make a call in his partner's area . That should happen rarely. When it does , you should communicate the reason clearly to your partner and by doing so to everyone else. I saw this happen just the other day between two very experienced officials. One called double dribble ,in the grey area as the dribbler was passing from the trail's area to the lead's. The official who did not make the call immediately gave a double tweet of his whistle -rushed over to his partner and with an obvious deflection signal combined with the verbalization-"the defence deflected the ball" Changed the call and gave the ball back to the offence.GREAT officiating and PERFECT teamwork. Everyone in the place realized these guys were a good team!! Remember it can never be confrontational.
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