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Originally posted by Dan_ref
Hope you're knocking 'em dead at camp this weekend. Speaking of knocking 'em dead I'll leave you with 2 words:
Jesse Orosco.
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I understand the Sox pulled out the win in the ninth tonight. (Not that I saw any of it.
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And camp is good. LOTS of good information. Lots of good video to analyze (from the NBA, but it's still good). Lots of good officials to observe. And more than a few good ones to work with, too.
Started off with some jitters this morning. Had a shaky first quarter b/c I work college, one partner works only CBA and the other official was kind of weak. Our switches and coverage were wacky for a while until we got together at a time-out and asked each other "Just what the %$@#&!
are we doing?!?!" From there the game went much better.
Then had a GREAT game in the afternoon. My stock rose significantly when one partner was a no-show. My other partner and I worked 2-man for the first quarter and impressed the heck out of our NBA observer.
Unfortunately, I gave back all those good feelings tonight. I worked with two officials with whom I just didn't mesh; the weak official from Game 1, and another guy who was ok. For whatever reason, we simply didn't work well together, and none of us stepped up to make the others better. It was awful to be a part of. I don't even want to see the tape in the morning. In our defense, our second half was better. I concentrated on slowing way down with my whistle and my mechanics and I think that helped me a little. The evaluator says I'm still way too deep as Lead. (I would say that I was a
little too deep. . .) But I was trying to utilize the new pro mechanic of stepping deep when you close down to the lane line extended. I just was stepping too deep. So I'll clean that up tomorrow.
The classroom stuff is great, tho. I made big points in the first session by being able to explain what "SBQ" means
(I even raised my hand, I was so excited to know an answer!!)
Anyway, that's Day 1.
Maybe somebody could start a new thread with the heading "When the crew just isn't clicking" and share some ideas on how to break out of that funk. I gotta tell you it was frustrating to know it was happening and not be able to change it.