Coverage Areas

[drinkeii]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

You have games where you just have to go into your partner's area several times to make calls that you think they're missing? Several times in one game?

It's a wonder that you've lived as long as you have.

I didn't say I HAVE to. I said that it has happened.

As for living, that is just another example of the ego concept - "How could you POSSIBLY want to come into my area that much?" I think if we threw the egos out, and just did our best for the game as a whole (and not just for our individual areas), we would be much better off. You folks are saying it is best for the game if we stay in our own little areas and out of each others. Again, I say, if it is THAT important, make it a rule, and only allow officials to call stuff in their primaries. If there are two games running on parallel courts, I don't have the right to call stuff on the other court - why should I have the right to call stuff outside my primary if I'm never supposed to?

I have rarely found a basketball official that is willing to admit they messed a call up (and fix it, when possible), except to other officials or other people, like coaches, after a game, when their mistake stands. Basketball officials, of all of the officials I have seen and had contact with, have the biggest ego "My call-right or wrong", or "It was my call to mess up, so stay out of my area". And again, I need to say - I'm not the one determining the right-ness of the call - it is a call that anyone who knows what they are doing that is watching would admit is wrong.