ortunately there is one positive that has come to us in the pro adaptation, and it can have an extremely important impact on your game, whether or not you are working 3-person mechanics. It all depends on what you do after you report to the table.

Plus # 1 (the only plus): Calling official goes table-side

Let's also put this one into perspective. Many of us got our experience from old heads in officiating who implored us to stay away from coaches. The explanation was that it could only get us into trouble, and that admonition is still around today.

As late as the middle 90s in print, and even at some camps in the late 90s, we campers heard the advice of how and when to stand and why we needed to avoid rabbit ears and why "going opposite" (from the table) after making a foul call kept officials away from coaches. That way, we didn't "light up one of those suckas!" If we stayed away, they had to shout at us, and if they shouted, it made it much easier to sell a technical foul.

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