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[booker227]

If you have a partner, and realize that you are blocked from the play, point to that partner BEFORE you make the call. Try not to make a call, confer, and then change the call. It makes you look bad.
In your pregame, talk about this situation and come to an agreement on how it is to be answered.

[Steve M]

Originally Posted by booker227

If you have a partner, and realize that you are blocked from the play, point to that partner BEFORE you make the call. Try not to make a call, confer, and then change the call. It makes you look bad.
In your pregame, talk about this situation and come to an agreement on how it is to be answered.

Booker,
The problem wih this is that your partner has other responsibilities - AND MAY NOT BE LOOKING at your play Make the call that is your responsibility before you do anything else. If you are asked by a coach to check with your partner because of a pulled foot/dropped ball/something else along those lines - that's fine, ask your partner. If the coach wants you to check with your partner because they do not like your judement, tell them that's not something you are allowed to check on and we'll all just have to live with a judgement call.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by Steve M

Booker,
The problem wih this is that your partner has other responsibilities - AND MAY NOT BE LOOKING at your play Make the call that is your responsibility before you do anything else. If you are asked by a coach to check with your partner because of a pulled foot/dropped ball/something else along those lines - that's fine, ask your partner. If the coach wants you to check with your partner because they do not like your judement, tell them that's not something you are allowed to check on and we'll all just have to live with a judgement call.

Umm... Steve? Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary since Booker's last login.

But your advice is sound nonetheless.

[Stevetheump]

Originally Posted by booker227

If you have a partner, and realize that you are blocked from the play, point to that partner BEFORE you make the call. Try not to make a call, confer, and then change the call. It makes you look bad.
In your pregame, talk about this situation and come to an agreement on how it is to be answered.

booker - In LL, their mechanics show doing just that, however, not in ASA. I have to make a call, then, if I confer with my partner and the information he gives me leads me to believe my call was in error, I have no problem changing it. Bottom line: I want to get the call right. Changing a call from a "missed" one to a GOOD one will never make you look "bad."

[Skahtboi]

Stevetheump:

Did you read the post that immediately preceded yours???