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Judgement is EXACTLY what you use in situations that I've described above......
"In my judgement, the ball probably went off A1, but B1 was very close to it and had a hand in there, I'll award it to team A."
"In my judgement, B2 shuffled his feet enough for me to call traveling - even though I might not have called that in a close game."
"In my judgement, A1 had enough possession of the ball as he was falling out of bounds that I'll grant his time-out request."
You can scream "judgement, judgement, judgement" all you want when people blow the whistle, but judgement is what determines IF you blow the whistle. Did you know that, of the officials that were assigned to the NBA Playoffs last season, they graded out as being correct (at least) 94+% of the time they blew the whistle? That's a pretty good percentage; but what about when they didn't blow the whistle? Judgement!
That's the basis of my whole premise. I, and other officials, will "kill the loser with kindness" in lopsided games and can do so in a manner that does not affect the outcome of the game, is not blatantly obvious, and prevents an already poor situation from becoming worse. This can be acheived by blowing the whistle OR passing on calls for both teams................
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Jeff Pearson
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