Tonight may be a GI, GD, GO game

[RobbyinTN]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Everything negative that you mentioned about your partners has to do with their mechanics. I'd be a little bit more concerned with their actual play calling myself. Weak mechanics do not necessarily equate to having "a mess out there". The coaches and players could give a damn less about our mechanics. They'd rather we get the calls right instead.

It almost sounds like you're making up excuses before the game for having a bad one. Try to be a little more positive when dealing with weak partners. It makes for a better...and more enjoyable...game.

JMO.

I agree that mechanics aren't as important as making the correct call but they still need to be as sharp as possible. And I hate to criticize a fellow official on their play calling but the one game I called with my U1, he blew a few obvious calls and we had to correct a few things (such as him lining up for free throws when I had pointed to the floor for inbounding and failure to grant a TO because he thought the HC was out of TOs). The couple of times I have seen my U2, he gave the ball to the wrong team on a AP (and didn't catch it in time to be corrected), called a three second lane violation and the team hadn't gotten into FC status yet and called an intentional foul that most thought was unwarranted). I pass these off as "rookie" mistakes but still hurts the game.

Not making excuses for a poor game - just realizing there will be more pressure on me tonight as the R to ensure we have a good game and to watch everything closely. I usually work with the same partners and never have to worry about things like this.