When to give your partner

[blindzebra]

Originally posted by zebraman

Sounds like this is 2-person officiating. Quite possible that the deflection happened in the trail's primary even though the ball went out of bounds on the lead's sideline.

You might want to add this scenario to your standard pregame conference. It is part of mine.

Z

In re-reading the original post, he did say, "The ball was on his side of the court," so it may have been in trail's primary.

That still keeps the primaries issue relevant, because if the ball was in trail's primary then lead should not have known who caused the ball to go out on their line.

So we have when to offer help, primaries, and pregame issues all in one simple play.