Bottom one?

[APG]

Not being professional

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Not being professional

+1

Close second: Incorrect verbage (i.e. "over the back"). That's an immediate ratings dropper for me.

[grunewar]

I want my partner(s) to want to be there. If they're just going through the motions for the $, I'd rather do it myself/or two-man. It get's into the entire realm of appearance, not professional, doesn't hustle, poor comms, poor signals, etc.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Not being professional

I agree because this means so many things.

Peace

[Toren]

Granted I'm just getting done with my first patched year. So I'm a noob.

1. An untrustworthy partner.
2. Someone not willing to give maximum effort.
3. Someone who has a personal agenda.

[Rufus]

Partners who don't show and, even when they're there physically, don't show.

[Nevadaref]

Outside of a partner who fails to show up for the game, here are my top 5:

1. Someone who wants the attention on him/her. Shows in two ways--flashy exaggerated mechanics and would rather blow the whistle on a close call than let the play go without a whistle. This person inserts himself/herself into the game too frequently. This person is just itching to blow the whistle and wants desperately to make the big call.

2. The partner who holds too high an opinion of himself/herself. This person's calls cannot ever be critiqued because he/she is always right and always has some explanation for why such and such a decision was correct even though everyone else knows it was BS. This person believes that the game being officiated is beneath him/her and wants to talk about how many college games he/she has done or when I had so and so last week or I'll be at a certain place next week.

3. The person who is too chatty with the players and coaches. Just leads to problems and also slows down the action.

4. Laziness. Doesn't want to switch, doesn't hustle to the table to report fouls, is slow to administer throw-ins and FTs. Turns a 1 hr and ten minute game into 90 minutes. Makes the game drag and sucks the energy out of it by being slow.

5. The person who calls fouls and violations on plays because they look awkward instead of apply what is written in the book. The play may be perfectly legal, but gets a whistle--sometimes right in front of YOU! Examples are when a player jumps or twists at an odd angle and avoids contact, but yells or lands hard or a player muffs a pass and juggles it for a few steps before controlling it. The first gets a foul on the nearest defender and the second gets called traveling. Many of these are ex-players or coaches who KNOW that they are right and can't be told otherwise.

[jeschmit]

1. Not a good communicator (pre-game, during game with verbal AND non-verbal and POST-game)
2. doesn't hustle on the floor
3. thinks that they're God's gift to officiating

(4. Wears a belt...)

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by nevadaref

5. The person who calls fouls and violations on plays because they look awkward instead of apply what is written in the book. The play may be perfectly legal, but gets a whistle--sometimes right in front of you!

+1

+5

[Scooby]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Partners who don't show and, even when they're there physically, don't show.

I disagree, I would rather not have "him" there, then be there, and throw me under the bus.

[APG]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I agree because this means so many things.

Peace

Exactly why I picked it.