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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Basket interference/goaltending is the most difficult because we don’t have the proper viewpoint from which to judge this action.
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Good point, I disagree, but if I were to agree with Nevadaref, for me, it would be a slightly different reason.
We officiate a lot of small school rural and suburban high school games here in my little corner of Connecticut, with much of the game played below the rim (half of our games are girls games), meaning we don't get a lot of experience calling basket interference/goaltending and these plays often happen in a surprising unexpected "got'cha" manner (I say to myself, shit, what just happened).
When a shot goes up, we little corner of Connecticut guys think horses, not zebras, probably making these basket interference/goaltending calls more difficult than they really should be (makes the easy look difficult).
While I've had many, many opportunities to call basket interference in my high school games over the years, I've actually only called a single goaltending violation in over forty years, and have thought about and passed on possible goaltending plays that I could count on the fingers of only two hands.