|
|||
Situational Officiating
Girls JV.. Rivalry game. With 26.9 left in game, and game is tied at 30. A1 dribbling up the sideline and B1 makes body contact with her 5 feet past midcourt line.
I come in hard with a block call and sell it. 1 and 1 and A1 makes front end and missed 2nd. A up 1 and ends up winning the game 31-30! D2 official was observing said with the game tied late in game, you need to keep the situation in mind before making the block call. Her Advice: Pass on the call and let game be decided in OT Comments please..... |
|
|||
Quote:
|
|
|||
Or, possibly the point was that this contact could easily be ignored at any time, but since the call was made in this situation where the resulting free throw provided the winning margin, the questionable call is even more questionable.
__________________
I swear, Gus, you'd argue with a possum. It'd be easier than arguing with you, Woodrow. Lonesome Dove |
|
|||
Quote:
I officiate college basketball as well (D3) and I understand what the person who observed you is saying but only to a point. In my conference we're told the same thing I wrote earlier: call your game. If we're consistent then our assignor will back us up. |
|
|||
Sometimes It's A Chess Game At The End ...
Good advice. Possible exceptions are those late game intentional unintentional fouls, or unintentional intentional fouls.
__________________
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” (Matthew 25:36) |
|
|||
Quote:
You mentioned "sell it". Why did you feel that you needed to sell this call? Was it close? Was it a situation not called yet in this game?
__________________
Pope Francis |
|
|||
Quote:
Did B coach say anything? i.e. "That wasn't a foul in the first quarter?" Lots of things besides OT can happen in 26.9 seconds. |
|
|||
Can you be more specific about what you mean by body contact? Did the dribbler lose her balance or was she hindered in any way because of the contact? Or did she continue to dribble past the contact without any problems?
|
|
|||
Quote:
I'm not a big fan of "passing" on anything in the last minutes of a close game. Making those tough calls are the reason we get a paycheck.
__________________
Calling it both ways...since 1999 |
|
|||
Calling fouls and being an official is usually a thankless job. The association wants stuff called one way, the coaches another, the fans want you to 'let them play' until someone leaves the floor on a stretcher. The theme here is consistency and some people (fans, coaches) might understand the crew on Friday night is going to be different than the crew seen on Tuesday night and that they will have differing philosophies on what they will call and when. What it boils down to me though is being able to make the tough call in such a situation. Not offering excuses but in a one point loss, people might remember the close call late in the game but how many free throws were missed by the losing team? How many layups? Did someone mouth off and earn a T that gave the winning team the margin of victory? Those are all part of the game, not just one single solitary call towards the end.
__________________
Be like a duck: cool and calm on the surface but paddling like the devil underneath.... Last edited by buckrog64; Wed Feb 08, 2012 at 09:56am. |
|
|||
Quote:
I touched on this recently. One of the biggest myths (and the biggest in my book) is, "you don't make that call at that point in the game." This sounds like the advice Rook was given, and I think it's wrong. I've been taught that time and score do not affect the way we call games, ever. (Okay, maybe middle school games with 30-point margins.) The game is decided by the totality of the score, never by one late call (despite our memory capacities).
__________________
Confidence is a vehicle, not a destination. |
|
|||
While that may be mostly true (I don't agree with it being the biggest myth), it doesn't mean the call was correct - we'd need to see video to know if he should have made that call or not. The advice, however, was horrible. If the observer had said something to the affect of he shouldn't have made the call because it didn't disadvantage the dribbler, that I could understand.
|
|
|||
I think it's better let the game be decided in regulation than OT. If the foul occured with :30 seconds left the other team had plenty of time and opporutnity to score and in the game in regulation. The game was decided by the fact that THEY couldn't get it done, not because YOU blew a whistle with 30 seconds to go.
Last edited by Duffman; Wed Feb 08, 2012 at 12:02pm. |
Bookmarks |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Situational Question | kzreffin | Basketball | 8 | Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:19pm |
Situational T | Rich | Basketball | 12 | Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:41pm |
NASO Sports Officiating Summit - Officiating and Technology | Kostja | Football | 0 | Tue Mar 20, 2007 09:21am |
NASO Sports Officiating Summit - Officiating and Technology | Kostja | Baseball | 0 | Tue Mar 20, 2007 09:20am |
Situational Questions | Ed Hickland | Football | 3 | Mon Nov 25, 2002 01:10am |