[Kansas Ref]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

The point is to call the obvious ones, just like any other violation.

But the problem is every time a player has his hands in a particular location, people yell about a carry when it clearly is not a carry or the ball never comes to rest.

*Ha ha--yes the crowd and opposing coach can be quite animated on such.

You do not want to be overly technical on any rule that will open up a can of worms by making those calls. And usually, it is typical to call those when there is an actual move that is used to try to get by a defender. Simply standing in one place is not going to draw a violation unless you want to be calling them all night.

*Ignoring the ''carry/illegal dribble" when there is no offensive action usually opens one up to applying a "double standard". I mean suppose that the dribbler is just trying to burn time in a close game--and still insists on performing illegal dribbles? We must get that call despite the circumstantial culture of ignoring it.

If you are talking about sub-varsity officials and what they call, we have an issue there alone. I do not expect sub-varsity officials to call anything as they should or they would not be working sub-varsity games in the first place.

*Whoaaa, JRut, let's not disparage subvarsity refs [weren't we all subvarsity refs at one time?].
Good Subvarsity refs are just as inclined to make proper calls as a good varsity ref would be. A weaker subvar ref is equivalent to a weaker var ref.

Peace

*Just my 2 cents worth.