Ref

This week went much better with officiating. The people causing me trouble were there, but they were well behaved this week. I will give them a benefit of thinking they had a crappy week last week. I was going to go over there and talk to the people, but I figure I would let sleeping dogs lie and if they needed something they would (obviously) not be afraid to voice their opinion. I am starting to see the floor better. Watching the ball carrier along with what is going on in the paint out of the corner of my eye. Listening to shoves, slaps, groans, or trash talking as well. There are tough calls in this league, they aren't able to steal the ball on the dribble, but sometimes they lose control of the ball and another girl takes it, so it is hard to decide if the girl lost the ball or if a girl stole it. Also lots of times the girls just dribble right into a defender, whats the defender supposed to do? Anyway it is not easy and I am sure I would enjoy doing older boys games better, but the the girls that play are getting solid games and practice in. They will be dribbling, passing, and playing defense well by 3rd or 4th grade. They already can play good defense. I am a bit surprised about how good they get back on defense. No one ever gets a clean layup.