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Originally Posted by JRutledge
You could have approached your partner in the nicest way, that still does not give you the right to come to your partner and question their judgment by coming to them in your situation.
Peace
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JRutledge, please read my posts more carefully as the rhetorical questions you're asking are all judgment plays (traveling - judging whether the dribble started before picking up the pivot foot; closely guarded - whether the defender was within six feet and actively guarding the opponent; 10 seconds - on the referee who's counting; held ball - simultaneous possession with no one gaining sole possession after a tug). I purposefully bolded the word "
rule" for a reason.
As I just indicated all of these are judgment plays. I'm referring to rule mistakes. Examples of these include awarding the ball to the wrong team after an alternating possession where there was a technical foul during the last one; awarding a one-and-one when a team is not in bonus; taking away a team's privilege to run the baseline after a foul/violation on the throw-in on a made basket; not calling a violation on a free throw that doesn't hit the rim; continuing a ten-second count and thereby calling a violation off an interrupted possession where the ball went out of bounds in the backcourt and the same team inbounds the ball; awarding a basket on a field goal try with less than three tenths of a second remaining.
Take for example the last one. You're coming out of a timeout with less than three-tenths of a second remaining. Your partner is the trail and you are the lead. The play is in your partner's area, he sees a player catch the throw-in and immediately throw it at the basket and the ball goes in - Derek Fisher style. He turns around to the table and indicates to the table to score the basket and award the team with the win. What are you going to do?
Bottom line is, if your job is to "judge" plays then you ought to know when to confer with your partner over a call as that is part of the play as you're still responsible to judge whether the call by your partner merited a mini-conference to make sure as a crew you got the call right based on the rules.
Again, I'm asking how to respectfully confer with your partner over a particular call. Not every call, not judgment calls where your partner is on top of the play, but on those rare calls where your partner might have missed something you definitely saw, or a call that was based on a misinterpretation or ignorance of a rule regardless of your position or what you saw. Maybe this time, on the eight page of this thread, people who have been criticizing me will finally understand my question.