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[Rich]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

This is EXACTLY why I am always the R when I have a fill-in.

If I'm in this situation and I've allowed the fill-in to be the R and he refuses to handle it properly like the R is this thread did, there's nothing I can do about it. And it's my *** that'll get chewed the next day.

No, it's not gonna happen to me. If we screw up, it's because I screwed up and I'm responsible. It won't be because I let someone else be the R who wouldn't listen to me when I knew he was wrong.

Easy enough when you are working with a regular crew and/or a fill-in where you are a well-known quantity who can easily assert your authority. It becomes a lot more difficult in the scenario where one is working a lower class game (many of us have forgotten that experience) where one or more of the officials are either green or think that they're 30 year vets who could stop learning 15 years ago. You can't have an argument on the court between partners and sometimes it's better to swallow your pride and allow an incorrect ruling to stand rather than to show divisiveness with the crew. If your area teaches that the Us give deference to the R in a situation where one of the Us alone makes a ruling, then I guess we have different operating environments.