Closely Guarded Count by the Lead

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Originally Posted by JRutledge

That is fine, but the Lead needs to concentrate on the contact, not whether if they are closely guarded. Let the Trail or Center take care of that. This is not Women's college basketball or the NBA where a count only applies in a very small percentage of situations. I would never advocate such a mechanic and think that you are weakening the crew by having the lead take care of something that other officials on the crew can do.

The Trail has to judge contact AND have a closely guarded count when the ball is in his/her primary. I don't understand why the Lead can't do the same thing. Why don't you advocate the Center official counting the closely guarded count when the ball is in Trail's Primary?

Originally Posted by JRutledge

And if you think (not you personally, anyone in general) you cannot ever have more than two sets of eyes on the basketball player, then you are not aware of how the entire mechanic works. Just my opinion of course.

Agreed.