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</b>Had a player with a cast on her arm...</b>
5th grade girls last night--one of the young ladies' left arms is a prosthesis from just above the elbow. She scored a couple of buckets and had a couple of rebounds. Their principle warned me of her before the game. Apparently during their previous game, her prosthesis fell off during a rebound attempt. The girls on the other team all froze while this girl grabbed the ball and scored! |
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Apparently it took the refs by surprise, too. My partner and I had decided we'd stop play if it fell off. I'm sure the things aren't cheap, and her parent's wouldn't want it stepped on.
The girl was fun to watch. She was taller than most of the other girls, which helped her out. She would get her right hand under the ball and was able to use the prosthesis to balance it. She couldn't hold onto the ball well, but she had very nice form on her shot with her right hand. When she did get a rebound, she held it to her waist and bent over it. She also played for both their A and B teams. |
These are the kinds of rules I am talking about uniformly enforcing. I just picked the breaking of the plane because that happened to be a rule I saw the biggest inconsistencies in the interpretation. I just think that we as officials have to be on the same page so things like the taped ears or tape over the metal barretts etc. don't get called a different way every night.
In reference to my first T. My partner usually ends up whacking the coaches and I seemed to get the players. We rarely hear anything from the coaches here in Northern Minnesota. In fact that is only our second T of a coach this year in over 30 varsity games. The ironic thing is he got the boys coach of the school and I got the girls assistant coach last night. I think most coaches realize when you are working hard as officials and are in position to make the calls. Also, all they want is a consistently called game whether you call it tight or let more go. Just so they know what will be called. We tend to call it tight. As long as the players and coaches know that a foul in the first minute will be a foul in the last minute provided it isn't a blow-out. Keep 'em "straight up" |
BigJoe, When you say "my partner", 1) are you doing two man, 2) do you have the same partner or did you mean whoever your partner is for that might, as in you work with different partners each night?
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I am the head of a basketball officials association where there are only four varsity officials. We do only H.S. boys and girls varsity. One of our members took on a coaching position at our local school when the head coach was made to quit immediately due to health reasons. So that left us with three. Most of the games were done by myself and one of the members. We live in the sticks in Northern Minnesota where there are only 20 high schools within an hours drive from us. I know most of you are in larger cities with large associations. We don't have that luxury or liability however you want to look at it. I solicit all of our games through the athletic directors of the above mentioned schools. That is why I have the same partner most nights. When we run into problems is when we have a rescheduled game due to weather and we end up with three games in one night. We call on other associations for help in that situation. |
Wow, you do three games in one night! I take back all those mean things i said about you. May I come up there and wash your car? You da man!
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I was born on the Mesabi Range. When I screw up I use that as an excuse. That, and being left-handed. mick |
I once had a men's league game (jerkball) where a guy got elbowed in the face and his glass eye came out!
His coach told me to be more aware of the rough play and I told him I would keep an eye out for it. OK, OK, I made that up. |
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