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Old Mon Oct 28, 2013, 02:41pm
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Originally Posted by Afrosheen View Post
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.
Part of it is, likely, knowing which officials are more receptive to in-game conferences, and which ones aren't.

That, unfortunately, sometimes comes from guessing incorrectly.
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