Bad Partner

[MattReferee]

Originally Posted by rbruno

What do you guys handle a bad partner.
Reaching into my area with bad calls. Bad foul calls in his.
Coaches moanin at me ... etc etc
I corrected a couple of calls in transition etc
What do you say to a coach questioning a a call that is clearly wrong ?

Did you have a pre-game with your partner(s) primary areas
How about at halftime ..did you bring up the bad calls you mention to him or them ?
What you deem bad calls may be different then what you partner(s) see
Coaches moaning at you ..simple tell “Head coach” ONLY.. to ask your partner also if a coach is asking”you” about a “BAD”call just Simply walk over to your BAD partner and have HIM go explain the WRONG CALL
I don’t understand why you have to explain all these BAD situations your partner did or had to coaches
May I also add you may be with a newbie OR inexperience offical you didn’t specify to this ..before all the NBA refs come out ..what I mean is newbie or just inconsistent”bad offical “ is what I’d rather use ,it is what it is does leave the bad taste happens to us ALL ! If the offical was new then the more experienced may want to give advise if he isn’t and just head strong Block him and move on you’re obviously asking because it happened and it’s after the fact.
And you know I may be totally wrong and not know diddy

[BigCat]

Can’t save the world. If you’re in a two man game you can expand to call obvious fouls. “Correcting” partner calls leads to folks wanting you to correct everything. At some point you have to let partner sink or swim.

[MattReferee]

Originally Posted by BigCat

Can’t save the world. If you’re in a two man game you can expand to call obvious fouls. “Correcting” partner calls leads to folks wanting you to correct everything. At some point you have to let partner sink or swim.

Yup

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by MattReferee

Did you have a pre-game with your partner(s) primary areas

You can pregame til the cows come home, and it still won’t make bad officials good or prevent all screwups.

[MattReferee]

Originally Posted by SC Official

You can pregame til the cows come home, and it still won’t make bad officials good or prevent all screwups.

Screwups or mistakes happen in every sport, but understand where you’re coming from.
pregame is one of the tools used to help out , still not sure what makes a BAD official and who defines and passes that judgement along. Again what do I know

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by MattReferee

Screwups or mistakes happen in every sport, but understand where you’re coming from.
pregame is one of the tools used to help out , still not sure what makes a BAD official and who defines and passes that judgement along. Again what do I know

No one is saying you don't know anything.

What I am saying is that people always act as if doing something different in pregame would prevent an issue from happening. You can have a weeklong pregame and it still won't prevent s*it from occurring or make a bad/inexperienced partner a great official. The perfect example is blarges - officials always want to talk about how important it is to pregame double whistles as if doing so will prevent blarges from happening. It won't.

[RefRich]

I worked with 2 less experienced officials last weekend. The main discussion was to work your primary. There are 3 of us out there and we all don't need to be watching the ball. If you feel the need to go fishing, you better be casting for whales and not minnows. At half-time we talked about positioning some more and rotations, moving to improve. This helped somewhat in the second half. I just touch on call selection because I did not have his/her angle and may have seen something differently. Also, if I'm looking in his area to see if he was right or wrong, who was watching my primary?

One official was concerned and he stayed after and we talked a lot about the game and calls made, the other got his check and left. One thing I pointed out was that with experience, you will generally know where you screwed up a rotation, weren't in proper position to get the call, things of that nature. Nobody is perfect, work your game and strive to get better.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by MattReferee

Did you have a pre-game with your partner(s) primary areas

Oh spare me.



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