Sean Corbin's Style............

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Lethargic is the wrong word. Maybe apathetic would be more apropos as a possible description.

But he gets plays right. And he was the one who came in from the trail to pick up that PC foul right before halftime in one of the early round games.

Apathetic would imply that he doesn't care. That might apply to some of his mechanics, but not to his overall officiating. As far as I am concerned he is one of the best to watch as far as court coverage, putting himself in the best position to see plays, getting calls right, dealing with emotional players and coaches, etc.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Apathetic would imply that he doesn't care. That might apply to some of his mechanics, but not to his overall officiating. As far as I am concerned he is one of the best to watch as far as court coverage, putting himself in the best position to see plays, getting calls right, dealing with emotional players and coaches, etc.

Oh, I'm not saying that he is apathetic, I'm just saying that's the impression some may get from his style as opposed to lethargy.

[tmagan]

They said the same thing about Joe Brinkman.

[canuckrefguy]

Some may think it's lethargic or apathetic. I think it's called 'presence'.

[tomegun]

[shrug] In terms of getting plays right, the NCAA would do well to send Corbin and DeRosa to the final four. I think the two of them know how to get to spots and get plays right. I also think they will manage the game well. That is no knock on any other good official.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by tomegun

[shrug] In terms of getting plays right, the NCAA would do well to send Corbin and DeRosa to the final four. I think the two of them know how to get to spots and get plays right. I also think they will manage the game well. That is no knock on any other good official.

And DeRosa knows the a designated spot violation is not traveling!!!

Had one last weekend and correctly pointed to the spot and then gave the directional.

[Multiple Sports]

Originally Posted by tomegun

[shrug] In terms of getting plays right, the NCAA would do well to send Corbin and DeRosa to the final four. I think the two of them know how to get to spots and get plays right. I also think they will manage the game well. That is no knock on any other good official.

Tome -

I agree with what you are saying and I think everyone has made some great

points. Based on what you said, do you think that the NBA training is that

further ahead of the NCAA training or is just that they spent the last 20

years seeing better ball than college officials. Or could it be that every DI

supervisor has his own style and their is real no consistency in the NCAA

game.........


APG - please jump in as well, you always bring a great NBA insight to your posts

[WhistlesAndStripes]

I thought this was rather humorous from some site i found when I googled Sean Corbin:

Sean Corbin was born March 18, 1966, and is currently an NBA referee. He has officiated 760+ regular season games and 25+ play-off games. Sean’s charitable efforts include working for health care for the homeless and raising money for charities by erroneously ejecting players from NBA games, triggering a league mandated fine (which goes to the charity of the players choice).

[APG]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

Tome -

I agree with what you are saying and I think everyone has made some great

points. Based on what you said, do you think that the NBA training is that

further ahead of the NCAA training or is just that they spent the last 20

years seeing better ball than college officials. Or could it be that every DI

supervisor has his own style and their is real no consistency in the NCAA

game.........


APG - please jump in as well, you always bring a great NBA insight to your posts

I think a large part of it is as you say...Joe DeRosa and Sean Corbin spent at least 10+ years officiating the highest level of basketball with the best athletes...and they were pretty good at it since DeRosa had worked Finals games before and Corbin worked playoff games himself. I also think with the NCAA adding some NBA-like rules and philosophies/POEs, things like freedom of movement, RA plays, wipeouts at the rim, etc are second nature to them.

Also, in the one or two games I've seen them work, I notice they rotate a lot more readily and quickly compared to partners...a byproduct of them working so long in the NBA where they rotate a lot more quickly/readily...seems to help them get into position a lot more often than not and not have to call across the paint as it seems to often happens in the men's game.

As far as consistency wise, as long as individual supervisors/assignors have the power to hire/fire officials, there will always be inconsistency...heck we can see that when people talk about how games are officiated between the Big 10/Big East versus say the Pac-12. I do think this has improved with the addition of absolutes and adding the RA.