Your worst call ever?

[Diesel]

I joined this Forum in February, but haven't posted anything until now. This thread seemed like an appropriate thread to comment in.

I once called "5 Seconds - closely guarded" on a dribbler in the backcourt before he crossed the half court line. Probably should have been counting to ten instead. Whoops.

[Mrcrash3]

12 years ago 8th grade boys private school league.
Navy blue against Dark Forest green, no home white rule, no pinnies, small dark gym. Blue 22 drives the lane, contact, whistle "block." Its on Blue 42 his team-mate. Uh-oh. IW play on. It was very hard to seperate the colors that day

[ronny mulkey]

Many years ago after a made basket, I became the new trail. A1 inbounds the ball and was being pressed by B1 right in front of Team B's bench. I called block on B1 and their bench went crazy on what I thought was a routine block call. The problem was that Team A had just made the basket therefore, Team B should have had the subsequent throwin.

Team A coach, A1 and my partner all agreed with the call????? It was embarrassing.

[HokiePaul]

First year of HS scholastic games; first boys JV game:

Someone in the stands yells "White" on an out of bounds call right in front of me that was tap/tap by both teams. I go with "White", and my uncertainty must have been obvious as I got a mock "cheer" from that section of the stands as well as a "we'll help you out on the next one too" comment for the whole gym to hear.

And while this was happening, as I replayed the sequence in my mind, I was more and more certain that the ball was in fact tapped out of Blue's hands by White and should have been Blue ball. If the crowd had not said anything, I almost certainly would have had it the other way.

That was my worst call, not because it was the worst call ever (it was a close play) but because I had let the crowd affect my calls -- pretty much the only time I can think where that has happened. I learned pretty quick that I needed to "sell" my questionable calls the most ... and to fight the instinct to mirror what you hear yelled from the stands.

[grunewar]

I did this one too in one of my earliest MS games.

Originally Posted by Diesel

I once called "5 Seconds - closely guarded" on a dribbler in the backcourt before he crossed the half court line.

But, of course my ALL TIME FAVORITE was in my first game ever (B10U Rec) as I twice granted a TO when requested by the Coach by "Ting him up." I mean, who knew that wasn't the right signal.......oh yeah, my P knew, laughed at me, and let me have it half time!