The Official Forum  

Go Back   The Official Forum > Basketball

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 02, 2009, 08:18pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Illinois
Posts: 862
First Season

Did you all get a lot of games your first season? Or was it a struggle at first?
Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 02, 2009, 08:24pm
9/11 - Never Forget
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 5,642
Send a message via Yahoo to grunewar
That's a loaded question that can depend on a great many things - location, level, your expectations, amount of leagues in your area, amount of officials in your area, etc.

Where I come from you can do a lot of Rec Ball and lower level school league games (7th and 8th grade) to see a lot of plays and get a lot of experience under your belt. But, I live in a very populated area with a great many leagues. If you live in a smaller, more rural area, you may have to go farther and your opportunities may be more limited. I've averaged about 100 games a yr (non-varsity for the most part) and I started my first yr with 50 Rec games.

Do you know an assignor or senior official? That can certainly help.

Good luck.
__________________
There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 02, 2009, 08:32pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Illinois
Posts: 862
Thanks grune. I'm from the suburbs of Chicago, so I would think my situation might be similar to yours.

I don't know any assignors at the moment, but I'll be heading to JRutledge's Accosciation meeting in a couple weeks.
Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 02, 2009, 08:35pm
9/11 - Never Forget
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 5,642
Send a message via Yahoo to grunewar
Well then, I recommend snuggling up to JR!
__________________
There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 02, 2009, 10:07pm
certified Hot Mom tester
 
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: only in my own mind, such as it is
Posts: 12,918
Question

Quote:
Originally Posted by bas2456 View Post
Thanks grune. I'm from the suburbs of Chicago,
Gotta ask ya. Your profile says Bloomington, Indiana. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and never realized Bloomington, Indiana was a suburb. Is it that you attend college there but live near the windy city? If so, whereabouts?
__________________
Yom HaShoah
Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old Fri Oct 02, 2009, 10:16pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Illinois
Posts: 862
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Padgett View Post
Gotta ask ya. Your profile says Bloomington, Indiana. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and never realized Bloomington, Indiana was a suburb. Is it that you attend college there but live near the windy city? If so, whereabouts?
Ya, Bloomington is a far South suburb

For real though, I went to school at IU, but just graduated in May and moved back home. I'm in Rolling Meadows, in the NW burbs
Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old Sat Oct 03, 2009, 08:17pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 937
Quote:
Originally Posted by bas2456 View Post
Did you all get a lot of games your first season? Or was it a struggle at first?
Like you, I'm a long time umpire who started the journey to become a high basketball referee last year. Every bit of advice you've received from everyone in answer to your OP is absolutely on target...esp. the replys about umpiring skills that transfer over well to basketball. Game management, appearence, how you carry yourself on the court etc. I certainly experienced just about everything that's already been mentioned in my first year....it was quite the learning experience.
As a fellow ump who made the move to try to become a ref, I'll leave you with three things:
1) I had trouble with (what I described to the vets here in a post last year) "slowing the game down." I seemed so fast to me that plays were just "overrunning" me. I got a ton of good tips here as far as working on this..and by about the 3/4 point of my season I got a lot better in this area.

2) Work as many games as you can as a new official. One of the many things that I learned from the regulars on this board is that you need reps, reps, reps, and more reps to develop as an official.
Seeing plays, working your PCA, developing yourr mechanics. At any level of play you can be and want to be working on these things every time your on the court.

3) As an experienced official from another sport, you'll have a good sense of what you need to do and how far you need to go to get an initial level of proficency and confidence on the court.

Welcome to the board...good luck with your first year. Hang around here...take it from me, if you want to learn the folks here will be helpful in everyway possible...they'll make your tranistion to the sport a lot easier.
KJump
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
End of Season rockyroad Football 3 Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:44pm
End of season Rita C Basketball 6 Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:49am
THE SEASON IS UPON US wpiced Baseball 2 Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:36pm
End of Season? whiskers_ump Softball 15 Mon Sep 08, 2003 02:44pm
End of HS season......... Gulf Coast Blue Softball 5 Mon Apr 22, 2002 10:33am


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:48am.



Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1