3-Man SNAFU

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

AremRed, you make me laugh. With that crew, we might have a case for 4-person mechanics at the high school level .

All joking aside, if I saw that the official who should have been the lead failed to drop down and stayed at center instead, I'd cross the floor. If that doesn't work, I'd make the "center" buy one round of drinks for all of us after the game.

You recognize that it was the R who made the mistake here, right? He should have come "camera side". U1 and U2 went where they were supposed to, originally.

The choices to fix it are to have R (Trail) cross over (as he did) or for U2 to go to lead and communicate to U1 to go back up to center.

[ilyazhito]

Silly me. The video was at a somewhat wonky angle, so I mixed up left and right. U1 and U2 did what they should have done, but R went behind U2 instead of U1. If U2 dropped to Lead, U1 could come up to C, and a rotation would rectify the situation, which is what I thought the crew would do. However, the video turned into YouTube comedy.
Now I understand why R should hesitate before choosing a direction to go, because it ended up being his error that put the crew in a ridiculous position.

[ballgame99]

Yes the R made the initial mistake, but the C needs to have a little better awareness than that. His Spider senses should have been going off knowing he had someone above him. Since C didn't recognize the R's mistake, R is left with the "walk of shame" across the court. They got lucky the ball went out of bounds. As the R here, just stay in the middle until the crowd passes and fill in the empty spot.

[JRutledge]

This is like a missed rotation. The person that made the original move correct the move. If other officials figure this out, then that is great. But this is just a mistake, just go fill in if you are the R. And the R should have known better anyway. Again, a minor issue in the overall game and someone is buying the beer.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

Silly me. The video was at a somewhat wonky angle, so I mixed up left and right. U1 and U2 did what they should have done, but R went behind U2 instead of U1. If U2 dropped to Lead, U1 could come up to C, and a rotation would rectify the situation, which is what I thought the crew would do. However, the video turned into YouTube comedy.
Now I understand why R should hesitate before choosing a direction to go, because it ended up being his error that put the crew in a ridiculous position.

Ridiculous?

It's one possession. Stuff happens.




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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Ridiculous?

It's one possession. Stuff happens.

And this might only happen once in an entire year. I cannot remember the last time this took place in a real game. Camp games? Well that is a different story and usually done by inexperienced 3 person officials.

Peace

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

And this might only happen once in an entire year. I cannot remember the last time this took place in a real game. Camp games? Well that is a different story and usually done by inexperienced 3 person officials.

Peace

This particular item, maybe.

Someone missing a rotation and someone needing to adjust to fill in -- happens a couple of times a season, I'd guess.

[JRutledge]

The bottom line, it is very rare. If it happens you not need to panic, just fill in and laugh about it later.

Peace

[TopicalTropical]

Wouldn't it be better not to cross over? I don't like seeing that when the ball is live. I think that comes from working youth games with newer refs who kept crossing or staying in the middle then getting caught in the play. I'd rather the trail wait. Then another team gets the ball. Trail becomes lead. C to C. Lead becomes trail and hopefully he will recognize what is going on and cross from the baseline over safely so there are only 3 refs on one side briefly.

Again, I like the video and just a good one to watch so it can help you avoid these unusual but understandable situations.