Refereeing the Defense

[rockyroad]

To help understand the seeing throught the play philosophy, try this little experiment...hold a pen up about two feet from your face and look at it. Eveerything behind it should look blurry...now refocus your eyes so you can see behind the pen clearly...you can still see the pen and you can see what's going on behind the pen...that's what seeing through the play is all about - you don't want to be so focused on the two players that everything else is blurry...

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

To help understand the seeing throught the play philosophy, try this little experiment...hold a pen up about two feet from your face and look at it. Eveerything behind it should look blurry...now refocus your eyes so you can see behind the pen clearly...you can still see the pen and you can see what's going on behind the pen...that's what seeing through the play is all about - you don't want to be so focused on the two players that everything else is blurry...

Great advice. I'm gonna start carrying a pen in all my games.

Only two(2) spelling mistakes in this one too. Your class must be soooooo proud of you. Don't forget to show the little sh!ts this post.

Now that I got all that out of my system, Deej, that really is a helpful way to describe the principle.

[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Great advice. I'm gonna start carrying a pen in all my games.

Only two(2) spelling mistakes in this one too. Your class must be soooooo proud of you. Don't forget to show the little sh!ts this post.

Now that I got all that out of my system, Deej, that really is a helpful way to describe the principle.

Am I the only one who grabbed the pen after his post??

[Vinski]

Originally Posted by JoeTheRef

Am I the only one who grabbed the pen after his post??

I did. The hands analogy is good too. Thanks for all the great advice. Looking forward to my next game to work on some of this stuff.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

To help understand the seeing throught the play philosophy, try this little experiment...hold a pen up about two feet from your face and look at it.

Does the pen have to match the dominant color of the jersey?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Does the pen have to match the dominant color of the jersey?

Only in certain local associations.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Does the pen have to match the dominant color of the jersey?

Go ahead, take 1 more wild and exciting stab at life! Assert your creativity! Free yourself! Question authority as you did when you were young and carefree, before you were ground down by care and disappointment, saddled with responsibility (not to mention the high cost of that special little pill to help "when the moment's right").

Use a pencil instead.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Go ahead, take 1 more wild and exciting stab at life! Assert your creativity! Free yourself! Question authority as you did when you were young and carefree, before you were ground down by care and disappointment, saddled with responsibility (not to mention the high cost of that special little pill to help "when the moment's right").

Use a pencil instead.

But, what do I do when the coach tells me to get the lead out?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

But, what do I do when the coach tells me to get the lead out?

That's when you take one of them little pills.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

That's when you take one of them little pills.

Some of the coaches I've worked with, no pill is necessary.

With some other coaches, the whole box o' pills wouldn't help.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

But, what do I do when the coach tells me to get the lead out?

Do what you usually do. Take the lead out yourself.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Do what you usually do. Take the lead out yourself.

We're not going to start the self-bat discussion up again, are we?

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

We're not going to start the self-bat discussion up again, are we?

I know in my case it's gonna hit the floor before the second bat.

Umm...what are we talkin' about again?

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

(not to mention the high cost of that special little pill to help "when the moment's right").

Costs ya, what, thirty bucks a year?

Of course, you could always switch over to the "whenever in a 36-hour span the moment is right" pill.