Have any of you ever called...

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Originally Posted by deecee

The only time i had a count out of my primary was in a summer girls tournament with backcourt 10 seconds count. My partner seemed to have a brain fart and by the time I came in and made the 10 second call it probably was about 13-14 seconds. My cue that he didnt have a count, was when i didnt see his visible count, so i picked it up. It was in a crucial part of the game as well.

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Still, the question remains, what IF he was right? What if the clock was on 8 (or even 9 or 10 or even more) when the thrower clearly had the ball OOB and was attempting to make the throwin but it ran to 2, 1 or 0? At what point will you blow the whistle to get it right? Are you going to let the thrower have 8-10 seconds? Or will you, at some point, make a crew call?

IMO, this isn't a crew call and this board is the only place I have ever heard of doing this - actually this thread is the only place. I cannot honestly count every mistake one of my partners may have made in a particular game because I have my own responsibilities that I'm worried about. In the spirit of teamwork, we all have jobs to do and if someone doesn't do their job we look bad as a whole. But that doesn't mean I'm going to try to call everything or make sure everything is right.

Someone mentioned a crew being suspended for a game last year. Just to show how things go the opposite way, the assignor for the crew that did Xavier/Cincinnati backed that crew up which I think we all agree isn't right. I know one of the officials on that game and I think he may have been involved in the game last year too!