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Old Sun Mar 31, 2013, 05:19pm
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If you mean when the officials are pointing at the player that fouled, well I have seen that all tournament long in some form or another. Maybe that is not what you are saying exactly happened, but I see a point a lot.

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If you mean when the officials are pointing at the player that fouled, well I have seen that all tournament long in some form or another. Maybe that is not what you are saying exactly happened, but I see a point a lot.

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It's happening so much in this tournament that its impossible to miss. Not sure it's necessarily a bad thing. Just know I don't do it at the fed level. The mechanic is in the officials handbook, though.
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Old Sun Mar 31, 2013, 07:41pm
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I see them do it a lot when the foul is in crowd and they want to show which one they called it on. No big deal.
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Old Sun Mar 31, 2013, 07:56pm
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It's happening so much in this tournament that its impossible to miss. Not sure it's necessarily a bad thing. Just know I don't do it at the fed level. The mechanic is in the officials handbook, though.
That is why I was surprised that Adam was surprised. It happens multiple times a game.

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I'm sure there is a referee in the NW corner of Conn. who birddogs on every call, of course while wearing his pants with the belt loops.......
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I'm sure there is a referee in the NW corner of Conn. who birddogs on every call, of course while wearing his pants with the belt loops.
Wrong little corner. Connecticuters who live in the northwest corner of Connecticut don't call it the northwest corner of Connecticut, they call it the Northwest Hills.

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I see them do it a lot when the foul is in crowd and they want to show which one they called it on.
That's the way we do it here in my little corner of Connecticut, we meaning those of us who wear beltless slacks, and those of us who wear black belted slacks.
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Old Tue Apr 02, 2013, 11:32am
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I'm sure there is a referee in the NW corner of Conn. who birddogs on every call, of course while wearing his pants with the belt loops.......
Either that or they could be doing a FIBA game which requires a birddog on every call...
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Old Sun Mar 31, 2013, 08:26pm
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That is why I was surprised that Adam was surprised. It happens multiple times a game.

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Like i said, I hadn't had a chance to watch much this year. This was the first full game I've seen all year, to be frank. It's just been too busy. I remember someone bringing it up here before, but I hadn't seen it.

I can't see how it's helpful, either. Not that often. IMHO, of course, from the cheap seats.
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Like i said, I hadn't had a chance to watch much this year. This was the first full game I've seen all year, to be frank. It's just been too busy. I remember someone bringing it up here before, but I hadn't seen it.

I can't see how it's helpful, either. Not that often. IMHO, of course, from the cheap seats.
It was more obvious in the tournament. I am not ripping you for it, just pointing out that it happens a lot. It explains why you have not seen it with what you have been not watching.

But I think it is helpful to still "birddog" when multiple players are around the place you called the foul. I know often some players think you call a foul on them until you point out the actual player that fouled.

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It was more obvious in the tournament. I am not ripping you for it, just pointing out that it happens a lot. It explains why you have not seen it with what you have been not watching.

But I think it is helpful to still "birddog" when multiple players are around the place you called the foul. I know often some players think you call a foul on them until you point out the actual player that fouled.

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I can understand the occasional birddog. But I didn't like the way it looked when he bent over and practically got in the players' faces. Obviously, what he does works for him, but it came across to me as unnecessarily confrontational when a standard, upright point would have been sufficient.
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