Questioning Partner's Call

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Here we go, what Jeff said.

And as I said earlier, it would have been a time I would have told a less experienced partner to go explain (quickly) to the coach what and why the call was made.

I'm assuming this was a 2-man game. If I'm working 2-man game and I'm administering a throw-in on the end line I'm not going to have a solid look at what's going on at the division line.

That "solid look" only would apply if your partner knows the rule and it's a question of where possession was gained. How would you know that your partner knew the rule when such a situation occurred? Would you know whether he called it because the ball was merely touched in the front court which led him to call a backcourt violation?

I don't like leaving the play and merely telling the coach, "hey I guess we gotta live with it, though if you want to know exactly what happened ask him two or three plays after when he's tableside," implicitly saying that I know he got screwed and I'm not willing to help him out. Especially when I seeing these coaches on a weekly basis. That's not how I respect the integrity of the game. At the very least I will make sure that the controversial call where a rule might have been kicked is given adequate attention. And if my partner is as sensitive or adamant as my last partner was, I'll just let it go and tell him like I did at the quarter that as a crew we can confer with one another on the calls we have.

But usually on fouls I just let it go and talk with my parter at the half or at the end of the game if it was really bad. On violations like out-of-bounds or backcourt violations like these that are often kicked because refs think the player can't retrieve the ball in the backcourt on an inbounds after touching in the frontcourt, I'm often wanting to make sure my partner knows the rule and hopefully correct it right then and there.

I guess I've grown in a unit where it's considered OK to have your partner come up to you on a call you made as long as that partner leaves you to make the final decision on the play.