Game Management

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Smitty

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As I'm walking to the dressing room with my partner, who was the C getting an earful, he says I might have just called the foul at that point in the game. It wouldn't have affected the outcome and the coach would be content. I told him it wasn't a foul. He said that coach never gets up and complains and he was up in my ear and a foul would have prevented him from getting upset and it wouldn't have hurt the game. Game management.

I get what he said, but I'm still thinking about it. He's a big dog in the association. While it shouldn't matter, it still does.

So what did he expect you to do, call a foul after the coach started complaining? How are you supposed to know that the coach would get upset over that play? Or was there contact on the play and you passed on it? (I see now that you said there was). I'm assuming there were other plays where the crew passed on contact and you say you had a game where there had been no issues with the coaches, so how are you supposed to know this one play would trigger something?

I see where your partner is coming from as far as learning a game mgmt tool, but I have a problem with the way he presented it, as if you were supposed to know that all of a sudden this one play would cause a problem.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

So what did he expect you to do, call a foul after the coach started complaining? How are you supposed to know that the coach would get upset over that play? Or was there contact on the play and you passed on it?

Good question. I think he was irritated that he had to take the brunt of the coach's emotions. As I said earlier there was minimal contact that would not have been a foul at any other time in that game. If anything, the defensive player, who was faster and more athletic, had great position and it was the offensive player who created any of the contact. During the game, there were definitely more calls made against the losing team on drives to the basket because they were not nearly as athletic and able to control their bodies, so they would often be late defending and foul as a result. This play was just another case where the winning team was more athletic and able to maintain good defensive position and not foul as a result.

[Smitty]

Just received an email listing the representatives from our association who have been assigned to the state tournament and this guy is one of the three on the list. So that certainly gives him some credibility. That's a pretty big honor in these parts...

[ronny mulkey]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Just received an email listing the representatives from our association who have been assigned to the state tournament and this guy is one of the three on the list. So that certainly gives him some credibility. That's a pretty big honor in these parts...

So, Smitty, were you on the list?

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by ronny mulkey

So, Smitty, were you on the list?

No. Apparently I'm not one of the top 3 in our association of 400+. But I'm working on it.