Interesting BJV Game Last Night

[j51969]

Two big schools and the BV Teams are 1-2 in the conference. I knew this was scheduled as a 2-man game, and I was going to be running! Haven't had many V or JV games this year that have been very competitive, so I was looking forward to this one. These two JV teams could easily match up with many of the smaller Varsity teams and run them right out of the gym. I'm R tip, catch, kid jumps from the back court for a pass, over the back call that quick. In bound ball 1 pass alley-oop dunk. Maybe 20 sec are off the clock. I am a pretty fit guy and I was really looking forward to half-time at the end of the second quarter. These kids ran the hell out of us. We worked a lot of strong side, and were able to get the big stuff. Home coach kept asking for an illegal screen that may very well have been there. My response was we are working hard, if you want that call made more consistently you need a 3rd official. These kids deserve it, and I would take less money to officiate it. Varsity coach sitting next to him nodded his head yes. I remember back in the old days when working a game like this was the norm (early-mid 90’s). Maybe the players weren’t quite as athletic, and the style of play was different. How much better officiated a game is with the 3rd official is blatantly oblivious when working a game like this. Maybe all those calls coaches told me I was missing back in the 90’s were all true! Dammit….