bad call almost costs kent st.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by mightyvol
forum members:

tell me if i am wrong. i have been to numerous camps over the years and of the things that the clinicians emphasize is "see it happen,then make the call." i dont know if any of you were watching, but in the kent state game late, a player from kent was in the act of shooting and had drawn contact from the pitt defender. while in the act the referee blows his whistle and calls jump ball. the kent player continued through the whistle and made the shot. almost if not all of america thought the whistle was for a foul to be called on the pitt player. not the case, mr. stanley reynolds called it a jump ball. clearly it was the wrong call. this is a perfect example of "not" seeing it happen. this is also a perfect example of what guessing during a game will do to an official. you will get embarassed because of the end result. one of the things that i continue to preach to new officials is that, if you guess on plays or if you anticipate things you will eventually get into trouble. hopefully mr. reynolds will learn from this. i know we arent perfect, and i think mr. reynolds is a bigtime official. this is a situation that we can all learn from.

take care,
mightyvol

I may be nitpicking here, but this is not a chat room. We all know how to use the shift key to type and upper case letter (I know, that was a cheap shot), but all lower case letters makes it more difficult to seperate sentences.

1) Who cares what all of Amercia thought. The only thing that matters is that the official got the call correct. And he did. It was a held ball.

2) Due the the twisting of the two players involved, it was a difficult play to read, and the replays were not the best, but from the replays I did see (in slow motion), the Lead official made the correct call, and he had to do it in real time without the aid of instant replay.

3) I will admit that when I saw the original play, I thought that the Pitt player had fouled the Kent State player, but one has to remember that trying to officiate a basketball game on a televsion screen is nonsense. One does not get the good look that the officials really get. The only thing that I really look for when watching a game on television is block/charge fouls caused by guarding/screening. That is the only play you can really have any chance of making a judgement while watching the game on the small screen.

4) I had Pitt in the pool, even though my sister has her MBA from Kent State, and good friend (a former men's asst. at UNLV) who played at Kent State. So, yes I liked the call at the time, but remember after all was said and done, instant replay confirmed once again, that the official made the correct call in real time.