Shooting at wrong basket.

[OKREF]

Originally Posted by jeremy341a

I see where you are going with this. Why do some officials not want to say the colors that have more than one syllable? Is it just due to the ease of saying the word or is there some other reason? I come from a school which has purple as one of their colors so maybe that is why it doesn't bother me. Although we were called blue much more than purple.

Purple is always blue.

[CMHCoachNRef]

Originally Posted by OKREF

Purple is always blue.

We have one assignor who insists on accurate color descriptions -- claiming that referees should be smart enough to use two syllable words. i can tell you there are a couple "purple" teams who don't appreciate being called "blue" especially when "blue" is the primary color of the opposing team's road uniform.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

We have one assignor who insists on accurate color descriptions -- claiming that referees should be smart enough to use two syllable words. i can tell you there are a couple "purple" teams who don't appreciate being called "blue" especially when "blue" is the primary color of the opposing team's road uniform.

That's one assignor who needs to get a life. And I couldn't possibly care what the teams want.

To me, orange is a one syllable word and I use it, but it will be a cold day in hell before I use the word purple on a basketball court.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by CMHCoachNRef

We have one assignor who insists on accurate color descriptions.

So he probably loves it when you say, "Gamboge. Five. Push".