Inexperienced Partner

[TheOracle]

Do the best that you can for the game, and control what you can control. If you can find a way to minimize huge mistakes, and catch all overly physical plays, you'll make the best of it. Over the years, you'll see a lot of people never get much better. You just play every hand as hard as you can. There's no folding in basketball officiating!

[Texas Aggie]

It really sounds like to me as if you had no pre-game.

Not to me. It sounds like some guys I've worked with that pay no attention to what is said in pregame or other conversations.