NWAhoops.com Presents "YOU MAKE THE CALL"

[jdccpa]

I think that the coach was a little over the top and should have been whacked for coaching the refs instead of his team. BUT I also feel that part of the problem at AAU tournaments is ref overload. Things can get a little, shall we say sloppy after the third, fourth or the fifth game. AND when they take four tennis courts in a college field house and turn them into basketball courts, you now have two (sometimes three) potential OOB lines on each side of the court, in some cases dotted lines at that and, oh by the way, a chalked in 3 point line that gets pretty obscure as the day goes on. AND what about the non-existant half court line on the tennis court, "Coach tell your players that the half court line is the imaginary line that runs cross court between the two metal plates that cover the volleyball pole holes". I once refed an AAU game where as the trail I followed a ball handler who dribbled the ball at least three times OOB; it didn't dawn on me until we were coming back the other way what she had done.

Problems with line calls at an AAU tournament? I am not surprised, hey she stayed on this side of the curtain. ;o}