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Originally posted by just another ref
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Originally posted by BigJoe
Juulie,
Do you really care how many fouls a player has when you are on the court? I used to work with an official who would point out at halftime or during time-outs which players had three or four fouls and to admonish me not to hand these players a "cheap" foul. In my feeble mind, I think it is the players' and the coaches problem to see that the player doesn't pick up that fifth foul. If we start basing our calls on how many fouls a player has on them, we are in big trouble. I'm not talking about game management toward team fouls, just individual fouls. This guy also thought we should try to keep the team fouls close. This is another bunch of manure!! Sorry for the ranting, but there are alot of officials out there who do that.
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I agree. This is dangerous ground.
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Well, I'm gonna agree with Juulie on this point.
We should learn to not only track team fouls, but player fouls and what time they occured during the game, timeouts called and when etc... All of this will help us to manage the game better. I certainly am making it a personal POE this season. That being said, IN NO WAY would I open myself up to the type of conduct that is infered in your post. In fact, just the other night I had a G-varsity game where the foul count was 14-2. I knew who was in foul trouble, but I couldn't have cared less. I had a coach say to me during a timeout that the foul count was unballanced. I said, "You need to talk to your girls about not fouling then." Seriously, I don't care. Knowledge of the game situation doesn't mean we are going to give out "makeup calls" or change the way the game has been officiated up to this point. We should be aware that team A has 6 team fouls so that on the next foul we can make sure we get the shooter for the 1 and 1. We should know that player 30 has four fouls so that should that player get his fifth, we don't put the ball back in play until we notify the coach and get a substitution in for him.
I think that all that is being said is that we have opportunity to work on game management skills.