watching your zone

[oc]

One of the things that I have been working on is watching my zone. When I first started I followed the ball too much. Last year I improved and was calling out of my zone on average once maybe twice a game. This year I have concentrated on not upsetting the more exp refs and staying in my zone. So far I have reffed 6 games (all blow-outs) and called out of my zone maybe once. But, I feel like we are missing calls. There have been times when I was T (3 man) and could see things below the old dual area that I passed on. It was my P's zone so I ignored it. However looking back I might have had the best angle on it (even though it was closer to my P).

What do you do here? Jump into their zone and get the call right? I asked my P about all the contact later and he thought it was incidental contact-but I doubt he saw it as well as I did. Keep in mind there really wasn't anything going on in my zone so don't ask who was watching my zone. I was looking through my empty zone into the paint or below the free throw line extended.

I know you can't comment without seeing it. So let me just ask this. How often do you call out of your primary in your P's zone? thanks

[Edited by oc on Nov 27th, 2003 at 06:20 AM]