Nike Elite Officials Camp (LA)

[JBA]

Hello to all the referees. I am an avid reader of this forum from being a official for many years but now retired. The reason for this post is that a referee that I mentor (Mike Price) is now having a camp. The link can be found on stripezone.com . I could not be happier for his success. I hope all of you as referees help metor others. If you go please tell Mike that JBA still can out referee him. Good Day!

[Indianaref]

I went to stripzone.com, bunch of naked ladies.

[JBA]

stripezone.com

An article about the basketball being played

Article

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Indianaref

I went to stripzone.com, bunch of naked ladies.

Sign me up! Wait a minute. Do we have to be naked too? Oh well. I can live with that, I guess.

[Raymond]

StripeZone - NIKE ELITE OFFICIALS CAMP - 2010

The camp is in SoCal so be prepared to be on the court with a bunch of 18-21 year-old officials on the cusp of breaking into D1 ball.

[JBA]

Here is another article about the basketball being played. Looks like some great talent.


Nike Elite Youth Basketball League changing travel basketball - ESPN

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by JBA

Here is another article about the basketball being played. Looks like some great talent.

From the article:

Traveling will be enforced, in other words: be on time. If a team misses a game because of a flight delay, they will forfeit it. Same goes for being late for the scheduled tip-off. No games will be made up, period.



And that my friends, explains why traveling is seldom called in the NBA! Final Answer!

[canuckrefguy]

Yeah, this seems like a really great "mentoring" camp.

[JBA]

• Games will feature NCAA rules, including the college 3-point line, 16-minute halves, 35-second shot clock, a bonus after 10 fouls, player disqualification after five personal fouls and three-man officiating crews.

[JBA]

Here is a video of the first session of the Nike Elite Camp. They said it was going to be good basketball.

YouTube - tvg2345's Channel
YouTube - 2010 Nike EYBL @ Boo Williams / Michael Gilchrist, Quincy Miller, Austin Rivers, Marquis Teague

[Jurassic Referee]

Geeze JBA,we get the idea. Give it a break. It's just another run-of-the-mill freaking summer rec camp run by a few people to make some $$s in their spare time. And they make the $$s by providing free officials for those "elite" players while charging the officials to work. Unless somebody's aim is to try and get into the WNBA or NBDL, they're better off saving their money and using it to go to a good, fairly local camp geared to attaining knowledge and experience representative to the officiating level that they currently are at.

This has turned into nothing but a running commercial.....

[JBA]

Many of my post are replied back with sarcasm so I try to reply with hopefully good information. But from being a long time reader it seems sarcasm does beat out good questions as proof here from my first ever post. There would of been three post from me telling officials about my friends camp but that could of been to easy we first had to chop my first post. Now I see why past posters who asked interesting things no longer post.

[Jurassic Referee]

JBA, the ONLY posts that you've EVER made here have basically been ads for your buddy's camps. I'd be a heckuva lot more impressed if either you or your buddy, Mike Price, actually made a few posts here that shared your knowledge and expertise about basketball officiating with the rest of us. That is the intent and purpose of this particular forum, not showing some youtube clips of some "elite" freaking teenagers doing their summer balling. Clips that have absolutely nuthin' to do with officiating either, btw.

When you do so, I will apologize profusely for my previous remarks. Until then....

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

It's just another run-of-the-mill freaking summer rec camp run by a few people to make some $$s in their spare time.

Agree. During my dark side days as a middle school basketball coach, I was invited to coach at three camps, for several summers, headed by high school coaches, including one overnight camp, and one overnight camp, also for several summers, headed by a Hall of Fame college coach. I also, as an official, attended a northeast regional overnight camp run by a prestigious basketball officiating organization. In all four cases it was, for the most part, a "check 'em in, keep 'em busy for a week, cash the checks" mentality.

I'm sure that there are exceptions to this, that is, camps where the directors truly want to improve the skills of the attendees rather than just get to the end of the week for a great payday. I also agree with JurassicReferee that some great instruction can be found at local camps. I know that this is the case here in my little corner of Connecticut, where our local board runs camps, usually attached to a high school summer league, or, more recently, an AAU tournament, using top notch veteran officials as counselors. Not only have these camps been free to the attendees, but in the case of the AAU tournament, the attendees got to keep the game fees for officiating the AAU games. Now there's example of camps that are not in it for the fast buck.

[JBA]

BillyMac nice to see a genuine reply.

Also I have seen derogatory reply post to Phillyref who puts together a great list of local and US wide camps. To tell any referee about a camp is what referees do. Referees go to camps for all kind of reasons. To learn, instructors, basketball on the court, observers, location, dates, cost, etc..

I have been to plenty of camps in my 22 years of refereeing as a camper, instructor and observer. If someone looked at my post and said that camp might be for them (good) and if they looked and said not for them (good). But I will endorse this camp and others if you would like a list.