vet etiquette

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by Barry C. Morris
Don't get me wrong, ladies and gentleman. I'm not a "you'd better not call in my area" ref. In this specific situation, however, there is no way lead should take this call. If lead is looking at a ball 14 feet in the air and trail is looking at a ball 14 feet in the air, who's looking at the 10 players vying for a rebound. I'd be a lot more concerned about missing a possible violent foul on the rebound than an out of bounds violation.

From the way the play was described, this wasn't an "Oh, My God. How did they miss that" play.

I agree. It's not the lead's call because you have no business looking there anyway. That's why you don't make it. If you're lead and there's a BC violation that your partner doesn' call, are you going to call that too?

Originally posted by NevadaRef
If it had happened with 30 seconds left in a very close ballgame, I'm calling this from the lead and he can deal with it.

Bad idea.