Calling Like Your Partner

[Tim Roden]

As an experience official, ask yourself why your partner is not a varsity official. Then see what calls you can and should match. Obviously, block charge should look the same. Show some intellegence in what you match. At camp a few years ago, the clinician was talking about matching your partners calls. But he was assuming good officiating from his partners, not poor. Overcoming a bad partner is one of the challenges you are now faced with. That is a different discussion. I had a rookie that if I had matched his calls we would have had a lousy night. I called everything I could in my area of the floor and some in his to cover the game. He was just to scared to blow the whistle. Blow your whistle. Call your game. Do your switching and you will get through the night. What is going to happen if an evaluator steps out of the stands after the game and ask you why you weren't calling anything? He came to see you call, not your partner and you just lost a chance to call in the state tournament. Sorry.