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Old Mon Oct 28, 2013, 02:34pm
Afrosheen Afrosheen is offline
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Originally Posted by Adam View Post
I would ask, though, whether this official had previously demonstrated inadequate rules knowlege, or just "irresponsible behavior" (a fairly vague term).
The mistakes he's made are those that if he had a more in depth knowledge of the rules. He's played before and has a great basketball IQ, but he's irresponsible and by extension is reluctant to do his homework to better prepare as an official.

BUT I'm of the mind that his maturity depends in part how I respect him, and unfortunately that was violated during my last game with him. So having realized that I want to know how to better respect an official despite our different experience and knowledge of the game.