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I care about getting the calls right. That is why I do not go looking into my partner's areas. 1) I should be taking care of my own business. 2) If you are ball watching it their area, you need to understand that they have the best look at the play 99% of the time. Maybe what you THOUGHT you saw while poaching wasn't actually what really happened.
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Wow...8 pages and counting. Good grief...There is a reason "Stay in your primary" is (or should be) part of every pre-game meeting. There is also something to be said for the attitude "if you see something that is a non-basketball play, go get it"...or as one of my Canadian buddies says - "If you see something that is for God and Country, come get it".
BUT...that really doesn't happen very often... I can think of about 5 times all last season where something NEEDED to be called...on the other hand, I can think of 12 separate calls that sent games straight to the crapper when a partner decided something outside their area needed to be called when it didn't...all 12 times involved phone calls from assignors and game film being sent out, and two of those involved officials who are no longer working games at that level (both were multiple calls in one game, even after the "Hey, what are you doing" talks at time-outs)...so feel free to go fishing outside your pond if you see a great white swimming around...but you better make sure it's a great white and not a little old harmless manatee... |
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None of these are true for any example I have spoken of. I do not at any time refer to a call where I think I am right, but I am actually wrong. In every case, I am speaking of a play where, had my partner seen everything I did, they would 100% agree with my call, as well as just about any person reviewing the tape afterwards.
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Wow!
When you are working middle school, JV and rec ball...NEWSFLASH...you are going to have bad partners. That said, David, you have several officials...all working high school varsity, state playoffs HS varsity, college ball of varying levels, and someone who hires, trains and fires officials...telling you what you are proposing isn't going to cut it, if you want to be the best official you can be. That isn't our collective egos talking...FYI, you're the one spouting the get it right line, as if only you can get it right...it's experience, working knowledge of how things work, and most important WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THINGS WORK WITH PARTNERS YOU TRUST! So my advice is pay attention...I work some middle school, youth, and rec ball too, along with the higher levels that I do...I do this because I love officiating and these games give me some extra cash, and chances to work on my game without the pressure, but it also gives me the chance to do my part in making some of the officials I work with at that level better. Some are eager to learn the RIGHT WAY to do things. Some don't want any part of improving and insist on making calls all over the court, many of which ARE WRONG BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT IN POSITION TO SEE THE ENTIRE PLAY, care to guess who was? |
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Gimlet, just some things.
If you don't have any match ups in your area...which is rare, especially if you do 2 whistle...you are taught, and expected, to expand your area to help. This is mainly for the C in 3 whistle. But again, it's just like in 2 whistle where trail helps backside when lead comes ball side to take the ball below FT line extended or when lead expands to help opposite when trail has the ball high...these are expected and ways to improve court coverage. All officials on the court know that is what to do, and where they need to be looking, so in reality they are not calling out of their area, they are calling in their mechanically correct SECONDARY AREAS. I keep reading screens, backside screens. Properly positioned officials, that can officiate through a match up, are quite capable of officiating off ball while on ball. In fact my partner and I call those money calls, and have a little joke bet for the season on who will have the most. |
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Why should you not assume, that perhaps they saw the entire thing perfectly well, and judged it to be legal? |
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I see your point - and the fact that you have partners of varying abilities at various levels. However, to assume you are the only person who can call anything right in your primary area is incorrect. To assume every call you make outside your primary area is incorrect is incorrect. I'm not advocating throwing primaries out completely - I'm advocating less of the "Don't fish in my pond" and more "working together". To me, working together isn't saying "You call your area and i'll call mine, and if we miss something in our area, we better just stay in our area and not help each other out" - That's what this "You take care of your business and i'll take care of mine" is coming across as.
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And the SECONDARY areas are the other person's PRIMARY areas - and are all fair game for any calls by any official, by rule. Most of your watching, and most of your calls, should be in your primary area, but to say you have to stay out of your secondary areas completely is wrong. Both in my opinion, and in the mechanics of coverage - otherwise they wouldn't call it a secondary area - they would call it off-limits
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A great example is when a drive to the basket is going down C's side of the paint, when the drive gets to the basket a player from the middle of the paint comes over to help and hacks the drive across the arm. Sometimes C is blocked and L sometimes has the same angle. A lot of times T has the best angle on this play because he/she is looking through the play @ the best angle |
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