Kicked Ball

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Do you never make calls out of your primary even when you might have the best look or it might save the crew? Do you get upset when a partner gets something in your primary that needs a whistle?

Whenever I hear this “stay off my turf” mentality, it tells me all I need to know about that official.

And no, I’m not saying in any way that I agree with what his partner did in this instance.

Originally Posted by justacoach

Mark, you'd last about half a quarter doing NBA G-League games that have 4 officials.

I am not saying that it should never (with apologies to the late J. Dallas Shirley) be done, but if it is a two-person crew then it should almost never happen, and in three-person (and more) crews the mechanics are designed to have multiple sets of eyes on the ball.

In the play described we do not know how many person crew it was, but I from the wording of the OP I would bet dollars to donuts that it was a two-person crew. That said, I would like to know more about what actually transpired: Just why did the "off-ball" call a TF and who did he charge with the TF?

MTD, Sr.