Overruling your partner?

[canuckrefguy]

Interesting discussion...

Our ultimate goal is to get it right. In that regard, I have been "overruled" a few times in my career - I call white ball, partner tweets, jogs over, gives me info, I tweet and reverse the call - no hesitation, no question, because I know my partner must be very sure.

I have also "overruled" a few times. Of course, like the "admitting mistakes to coaches" thing, do it too often and it's a problem.

Trouble is, the line between help and hinder is fuzzy, and moves around a lot. Pregaming those situations cuts them down to only the ones where overruling is the right thing to do.

If we approach all of these situations with the attitude that "the crew MUST look good", those overrule situations become less like catastrophic events and more like routine ones.