Pregames

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I tell both scorekeepers to get both the books to match. They can't agree. They start comparing team fouls and personal fouls, in both the first and second half. The time out is now long over. I tell the players to stay near their benches and my partner joins the pow wow. Neither scorekeeper is going to budge on this issue. Home scorekeeper wants to use coaches stat sheet as a backup to his scorebook. I tell him no way, we're going to get this done here at the table. I tell them again to make the scorebooks books match.

Why waste so much time trying to make them match? If they can't figure it out within a reasonable length of time, go with the home book..just like the rules tell you to.

Lah me......

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Why waste so much time trying to make them match? If they can't figure it out within a reasonable length of time, go with the home book..just like the rules tell you to.

Which is what we did, but in this blowout game, anything more than ten seconds was an unreasonable amount of time. The whole discussion probably lasted ninety seconds, but it seemed like ten minutes.

[grunewar]

I had an excellent table crew tonight for my BF/BJV games - no runs, no drips, no errors!

Adult on the clock, and two squared away yutes doing the books.

We had our "pre-game chat" and I told the official scorer to put away his Cell/PDA. He did. At the half of game two as we were going back on the floor he says, "last text ref, then it's going away."

It is so great to have a good table crew. Makes everything smooth.....

And yes, the players were all in numeric order in both books!

Side Note - as my P and I are exiting the court toward our locker room, we go down our hallway and some of the counties finest police officers had two, apparently not so law-abiding teenagers against the wall and were frisking them pretty good. Lots of school staff on the scene. Good night for us - bad night for them!