Correctable error was my fault

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rita C

I have a problem with loosing the number of the fouler if I say the number of the shooter.

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

I usually have the same problem of keeping track of more than one number at a time when reporting a foul. That's why I try not to verbalize the shooter's number.

Originally Posted by KJUmp

I have the same problem.

I thought that I was the only one with this problem. I will point the shooter out to my partner, especially if it's an off the ball foul, like a rebounding foul, and I will try to see what the shooter looks like, i.e., tall, dark hair, glasses, headband, etc., but I won't look at the shooter's number, and I tell this to my partner in my pregame: Off official should help identifying free throw shooter.

Maybe we can start a support group: Officials Who Have Difficulty Remembering Two Numbers. At our first meeting we can talk about calling a double foul, and keeping the colors, and numbers, straight.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I thought that I was the only one with this problem. I will point the shooter out to my partner, especially if it's an off the ball foul, like a rebounding foul, and I will try to see what the shooter looks like, i.e., tall, dark hair, glasses, headband, etc., but I won't look at the shooter's number, and I tell this to my partner in my pregame: Off official should help identifying free throw shooter.

Maybe we can start a support group: Officials Who Have Difficulty Remembering Two Numbers. At our first meeting we can talk about calling a double foul, and keeping the colors, and numbers, straight.

For help in trying to remember multiple numbers, you have to use word and number association.

For example, if the DF is Blue #24, and Red #50, it should be easy, since Labatt's Blue has 24 pops in a case, and Molson does have their pop called "50" which has a red label.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Labatt's Blue has 24 pops in a case, and Molson does have their pop called "50" which has a red label.

That's great for you Canucks. Most of us drink Budweiser, Miller, of Coors, down here, except for me. I've got to be the only person in the USA that still drinks Schaefer.

"Schaefer, is the, one beer to have, when you're having more than one."

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

That's great for you Canucks. Most of us drink Budweiser, Miller, of Coors, down here, except for me. I've got to be the only person in the USA that still drinks Schaefer.

"Schaefer, is the, one beer to have, when you're having more than one."

I'd rather have one good beer than any of those.

Rita