2-Man Mechanics

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Originally Posted by RichMSN

It's not that simple, IMO. There are fouls deep on the trail's side where the T just has a horrible look -- for example a drive on the endline where the foul occurs from the backside (between the shooter and the endline).

The lead simply has to pick up play across the lane in 2-person or the T is going to have to do a lot of guessing. Neither is ideal, but the L is in better position to make a lot of those calls/no-calls on shooting fouls near the endline.

I'm an active trail (at least I think so) and I'm thrilled when a lead picks up some of those.

All of that being said, even more reason to "hire a frickin 3rd!"

Not that I want to give anything but my best efforts on the court, but getting 3 officials on all games will never happen if we keep working the 2 person game in such a stellar fashion.

"Why pay a 3rd official when these 2 guys are busting to get the job done for a couple extra dollars" is what I heard an AD recently say.

On my job that pays the mortgage, we had 6 employees in my department. They fired 1, if the 5 of us still maintained the departments responsibilities, do you think they would have ever hired a new person? Absolutely not!