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lighten up
Interesting thread.
Here's my opinion.
Ever since we were wee-referee's, we have been trained to do everything by the book. This eliminates alot of gray area, but games would take as long as a baseball game. This also reduces the career of officials, because the powers that be don't appreciate the game being stopped on every possession.
As we move along the path of referee life, we are then encouraged to make decisions using advantage/disadvantage. This is when we let some of the traveling violations go when 'little Johnny/Suzie' shuffles their feet at the top of the key with no real defensive pressure. Rather than call this minor transgression, we play on.
There is a book (the title escapes me) out there written by Earl Strom in which the NBA makes it clear that the people paying the bills don't come to the games to watch the referees call alot of the irrelevant fouls/violations. Given the popularity and money involved, the mandate came down that there is 'star treatment.' Unfortunately, players, fans, and coaches have picked up on this and consider themselves 'equals.' Here lies the problem.
I cannot watch NBA games for various reason, but the biggest is that you can pretty much script every game, with the results in doubt until the last 4 minutes of the game.
Hope you all enjoyed my ramblings.
BBallCoach, I appreciate your attempt to find more constructive ways to particpate in this forum. For me, your slate is clean.
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