double whistle and 2 different calls...

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

If you are the younger/less experienced official and you have the stones to stick with your call in a tough situation in the face of adversity a supervisor will respect you even more. If you give that call up the supervisor might look at you as a pushover.

From your response, it sounds like you are worried about your ego. I thought ego was not important?

In my experience the assignors usually put more pressure on the veteran to keep things from getting out of hand. I know I have been asked to be the "lead" official because of who my partner or partners are. And I know when I work with older and more accomplished officials, they were told similar things when I have worked with them. I am just addressing a trick of the trade. If you think you have all the answers, by all means make a bigger deal out of a double whistle and see what happens.

Peace

[Raymond]

...But I would think that any veteran official worth his salt would have deferred to the Primary in a non-game saving situation. I've only been working 5 years but if I were on the court with a 1st or 2nd year official and we had a double whistle in his/her primary (again, assuming a non-game saving situation) I would have nodded for him/her take the call without even coming together. And if the coach would have had a question for me I simply would say my partner had a LOT better look than I did.