letting go of a "bad game"...

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Originally Posted by vbzebra

2nd year official, had what I thought was a bad game last night (not level or quality of game, but I felt like I stunk it up). Blowout game from the start, felt a step behind all night, jumped a few calls, felt way late on some, some I know I missed, and I didn't feel I was as focused in 2nd half.

R had lots of encouragement afterward. Told me what to work on, but gave lots of encouragement afterwards, even thought I felt like I did a horrible job.

I know you're never as good as you think you are or as bad as you think you are, how do you "let go" of a game where you felt like you officiated terribly?

And what do you do to try and maintain focus in blowouts?

I try and break games like this into small segments. For the next 5 minutes, I'm going really try and not ballwatch, or get into better position, improve angles, crisper mechanics, stuff like that. You may want to try a new variation of a foul call that you saw someone do. I admit it's tough sometimes with blowouts or if you do 4-5 game sets of kids games to stay focused.