New official with ean xperienced one in a game.

[EddieLopez]

I am a first year as I have mentioned in other posts, all but 8 games total under my belt at any level. So things are slowly but surely getting better as every quarter and every minute passes. I am really excited and love the opportunities, like more than I ever thought I would. Anyway, tonight I did a JV girls public(Makes a diff here in Miami versus private)and my partner was a 3 yr official. At the half he was amazed at my first half of work, he kept asking me if I was kidding him about the 8 game thing. I honestly felt, no disrespect to him, that I was the better official out there tonight. I found myself calling things somewhat out of my primary, calls I felt were obvious and needed to reward the visiting team that was always down but scrapping. What do you all think about that.

Also 2 calls I had questions about:

1. On an inbounds for the home team, A1 passes to A2 while A2 attempts to go out of bounds from the other side to inbound to a teammate(The set inbound play if you will).
This is a girls' jv for god's sake I am thinking to myself, I get caught offguard and call violation. Home team coach is perplexed and I signal violation A2 was partially inbounds on the catch therefore inbounds on pass from A1 and out of bounds. I made this up on the fly and was not 100% although I felt it was the right one.

2. Visiting team inbounds on the floor I am the lead and halfway to A1 walking upcourt to pick it up, my partner calls 5 sec. I am like what? Visiting coach is calling me asking why did he call 5, I ignore him, he calls me again and I say,"The call was down there coach-missed it". I knew my partner made the wrong call. On dead ball I play dumb and ask him about it, he explains that the ball has to be touched in 5 sec., I think to myself" Cannot be" and say oh ok cool.

What do you all think?

Thanks