Maintaining parity during a blowout
This is more of an observation of myself than a rules thing, but my pair of games last night were both blowouts. It's so hard when the skill level is so lopsided to call the game as tight one way as the other. You see kids playing sloppy basketball and you could theoretically call fouls on every play, but I find myself holding back and seeing how the play works itself out before blowing the whistle. Yet when the more skilled team does anything wrong, it's so clearly obvious (because they aren't sloppy) that I call it immediately. I know I am supposed to call the game the same both ways. But when the skill level is so different, the sloppiness on the one side makes the line between clean fouls and chaotic play pretty hazy. Again, just an observation. Flame on...
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