Oak Hill--Norcross game on ESPN--calling all Georgia officials

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Originally Posted by tomegun

Wow! There are a lot more problems in high school basketball than this. Let's start with all the ball watching (not talking about you) that goes on. Will eliminating ball watching or making sure everyone uses the stop clock signal make the high school game better? I think we know the answer to that one.

There's a war in Iraq. Based on your standard, what business do we have discussing high school basketball?

Rut asked about their mechanics. There's nothing wrong with that. If you don't want to answer his questions, why post in the thread? There's no reason to criticize because he has has very valid questions. Start a thread on ball hawking if that's what you want to do.

Back to the post:

The officials were obviously college officials who probably also work high school basketball.

• Walking while reporting
• Failure to stop the clock with a raised hand on violations
• "not" closely guarded
• no hand behind the head on a PC foul

Here in NC, they would have gotten an a$$ chewing at halftime if the NCHSAA supervisor had been in attendance. I have no problem with the way they officiated the game. But this is a HIGH SCHOOL basketball game, played under NFHS rules. If you don't want to use HS mechanics, fine. Give the game back so that officials that use the proper mechanics for this level game can work the game. The game can be well officiated and still use HS mechanics.