Confession and Questions

[Mark Dexter]

No, I'm not crew/zimp/anyone else.

I blew two (albeit minor) calls in my second game today.

First one, I'm trail coming upcourt, right behind the halfcourt line. B1 is set at the top of the lane, and A1 charges into B1. I look; figure that the fast drive was somewhat dual responsibility, and called a PC.

Second one, I'm again trail as the A1 (same player as before) brings the ball upcourt. He goes to the ground, and I instinctively call traveling. Turns out, he was dribbling the whole way to the ground, which the lead clearly saw.

(I'll take the encouragement from Juulie's post about messing up).

Question(s) is (are): in the second situation, could I (a) ask the lead if A1 was still dribbling and reverse the call? -or- (b) Say I stopped play to check if A1 was hurt, and give A the ball back?

(Of course, I didn't think of these until about 40 minutes after the game . . .)