Call Consistency as a Crew

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Oh, I get it now. You don't pre-game it. You wait for the first close call. If that's a block, then every close call by every official for the rest of the game has to be a block also. Or if the first close call was a charge, then every close call by all officials for the rest of that game should be a charge also. Heckuva idea, Skippy. Sure makes it a heckuva lot easier too. It takes all of the judgment and thought out of the calls. Officiate by numbers.

Of course, you do have to keep a real good watch on all of your partner's calls at the start of the game to make sure that the first call that they make was a really close one.

Naw, that's way too complicated and nouveau wave for dumb ol' me. I'll just continue trying to make up my own mind on each call as to what I think it should be.....even though all the extra thinking required does make my head hurt.

JR, every call can not be made in a vacuum. If you are letting marginal contact go when B1 is shooting in the post at one end but your partner(s) is sending A1 to the free throw line on the same contact at the other then you don't have consistency and Coach B will soon be earning a Technical foul. It most definitely has to addressed in the pre-game and, if need be, at halftime.