First Year Reflections

[Doug]

here is my top 20 list of ways to have a good game, and then 20 ways to have a bad one
1. relax, when you work, enjoy the game and have fun!!
2. look and act like a reff from arrival to departure
3. keep your cool, no matter what
4. mentally prepare and rehearse
5. be prepared to handle the unexpected
6. let the players know you are human
7. seek first to understand, then to be understood
8. wk hard to manage the game and not control it
9. check your ego at the door
10. accept your reality and don't badmouth other refs
11. referee the defense, and think like the offence
12. learn from everyone and anyone
13. do a pre-game w/ partners and table, talk w/ game manag.
14. get and give up games the rihgt way, call the ad
15. solicit constructive criticism
16. get the damn call right
17. don't forget to pay atttention during dead balls
18. have a patient whistle
19. learn how to make a no call
20. don't make up fouls- phantom/make up calls

20 ways to have a bad game

1. not hustling
2. not being open to listining, but being willing to talk
3. not asking for help when needed
4. refereeing out of your primary
5. punishing good d (verticality)
6. not protecting the shooter
7. calling a bucket good or no good when you didn't have the foul!!
8. letting the crowd control you
9. making up fouls and signals
10. ball watching
11. letting illegal screens and reroutes go uncalled
12. saying over the back and reaching- these are NOT fouls
13. anticipating calls
14. calling your partner's endlinie
15. not knowing the 5 correctable errors
16. bailing out as the trail
17. not knowing the difference between possesion, team control, and player control
18. selling every single call you make
19. watching the ball in the air as the lead
20. trying to assist an injured player

sorry for the long post and i know some of it will be controversial, but i would like the feedback. this is hwat i learned.