Rich |
Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:17am |
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Originally posted by LarryS
I had a girls varsity game last night and luckily it ended in a blow out.
I could never seem to get into a rhythm and felt like I was a half beat slow all night. I feel good about the calls (neither coaches or the fans seemed to be on me or my partner), but kept doing stupid things.
- Twice I reported fouls where I gave the correct number verbally but held up the wrong number.
- Ball went out on green...blew my whistle, yelled green and (you guessed it) pointed in white's direction.
- Two or three times there was a steal while I was trail and I was slow to react and start down the court...luckily they all resulted in uncontested layups.
I even think I gave the wrong signal reporting a foul to the table. Seemed like the more I tried to focus, the worse it got. Luckily there were no evaluators watching us.
After the game I commented to my partner that I felt I had an bad night and he suprised me by saying he thought I did a pretty good job. He must have had some really bad partners this season.
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Or you're just being hard on yourself. Relax!
I had a good one last night. Girls, we didn't get started until about 7:50PM because the JV officials had both teams in the double bonus most of the fourth quarter. Yes, I said it that way cause that's how I meant it.
Anyhoo, we're in the fourth quarter of a game that is about a 25 point spread (26 total fouls from us :) ). Simple out of bounds on my partner's endline and he (correctly) gives the ball to the losing/visiting team.
Coach starts in on him and finishes with, "I'm sending a tape." Partner, without blinking, says "I hope it comes with an apology."
To be honest, he didn't seem to like us much. While we only called 26 fouls, at least 12 of those were off-ball fouls and 8 were against the winning team -- blocking cutters, holding cutters, illegal screens, etc. I know they're used to getting away with that normally.
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