Varsity blowouts, concentration, and timing

[mikesears]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
....serving myself up.

The day I think I'm too good to make mistakes is the day I hang up the shoes. Besides, I am really interested in hearing some of the veterans talk about timing. I'm primarily a baseball umpire, where timing is stressed over all else. In basketball, I never thought about timing in the same way, but am starting to realize how important our timing is to the flow of a game and how important it is for us to have good timing in order to manage a game.

To be honest, keeping focus during huge blowouts is something I have always had to work hard at. And this game was a blowout five minutes in.

Rich

While I don't work basketball anyomore and I never obtained "veteren" status, one thing that always helped me with getting a number was (after blowing the whistle and going up with the fist), say the number of the player who commited the foul. "#45, red . . ." Bird-dogging also assisted me in remembering to get a jersey number. If I was pointing at them, I'd realize it was either a name or a jersey number. Much easier to remember the number

Good luck. Hope to come back to basketball later in my career, too.