Camp stories

[ChuckElias]

Well, I'm freshly back from camp. Enjoyed the heck out of it this year. But I noticed that there are not very many stories from people who have been camping this summer. So I thought I'd see if I could get some of you to share. I'll start. (Dan's already heard it. Sorry, Dan.)

My worst whistle of camp came in my very first game. The game was played on a very cramped court. Ten players and 3 refs were a tight squeeze. And forget about rotating unless you want your Lead to get run over by cutters in the lane.

Kid is dribbling in transition, but is trying to get through about 4 defenders at once. The dribble is interrupted, he gets it back, it gets loose, he catches it, fumbles it, catches it ("Mass hysteria!!"). He pushes the ball to start a new dribble, the ball hits the floor and I hit my whistle. As soon as my whistle goes, a defender knocks the ball away. The guy never actually dribbled again.

Well, a D1 assignor and a Final Four official are both watching this cluster-dexter and look across the floor at me, half questioning, half laughing. I just waived them off. Like, "I know, I know". So they were laughing at me. After a switch or something, I'm on the other side of the floor and the Final Four official says, "So, Chuck, uh, what did you have on that? Travel, double-dribble?" I said, "It was going to be a double dribble". The assignor laughed right out loud. "I like that!! It was 'going to be'! I'll remember that one".

And not for nothing, but tomegun can ref some hoop! We didn't get to work together, but I peeked in on him a couple times. Hope you guys made it back ok, Tom!