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I actually quite often forget who the official scorer is while reporting. But I'm so loud and tall it hasn't be an issue yet, no matter with whom I'm making eye contact.
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For us that have never had a scorer wear stripes, we wouldn't think twice about it, but now that I've worked with it, I wish it was more than just a recommendation. |
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Our school has striped "pullovers" like the construction workers wear - but in the black and white stripes. I like being able to look across the court and know who is "official".
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Does anyone else sense how such visual cues also seem to be important when communicating with the official scorer? Knowing to whom to report offers the opportunity to verify that he/she "got it". Usually this verification occurs when, after receiving the information, the scorer looks down, turning his/her attention from receiving your communication to the book to record it. Other times it comes by a slight nod of the head. When a quizzical look on the face of a scorer takes place after reporting a foul, for instance, that's when I know I better clarify what I'm trying to communicate so we get things right. I had a scorer last Thursday who, while we would report a foul, always had his head down, recording the foul based on what he thought he saw on the floor rather than what we were reporting. Drove me crazy until I discreetly told him to wait until after we reported it. About as crazy as when timers click the next team foul forward before we report it so that when we look up at the board to see if it'll be a one-and-one, we see the number of fouls resulting from the call we haven't yet reported. Many correctable error situations could be avoided if the timers wouldn't do that. Last edited by Freddy; Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 12:27pm. |
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Scorers that don't look at me when I report fouls drive me absolutely NUTS. I hate it with a passion.
I had a scorer and timer in a JH game this fall that were absolutely AWFUL. Scorer wouldn't look at us when we were reporting, they were constantly talking, missing things. When we would remind them of things, they were condescending. We got the "Yeah....okay" a few times. They were just very flippant and rude the entire time. They were two female teachers from the school and didn't take it seriously at all. Other than that day, the table crews we have are usually very good, especially for Varsity/JV nights. The one thing I notice is that most timers have no clue about the replacement interval for a DQ or injured player. I usually try to remind them before the game about when the horn should be buzzed. |
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Me too, atleast I haven't dove for a loose ball yet!
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