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My observations...
"Keeping Officials honest???" "Keeping it Fair"?
C'mon there's an automatic implication. Although it is not a true indication by any means what was the total foul count for the game? or is it that your team was outmatched, out gunned that you had to foul to stay in in.
Here's something to consider and I think most officials would agree... When you have a poorly officiated game it ALWAYS favors the team with the lesser skill. If the officials were calling it tight, maybe the better team knew how to not foul, move the ball, fastbreak, etc. To be agressive against a team that outmatches you will get you fouls...
I will admit... I MISS Calls.
How many times does an official actually hammer a team? Not very many.
I got accused of hammering a team not too long ago, 2 officials 5 fouls on the starting center. 4 of the 5 fouls were off ball. (3 by me 2 by my partner) I know the coach was not watching.. When we tried to explain to the coach what the player was doing WE got dismissed as not knowing what the game is or how to call it, The coach did not want to listen us and the kid eventually fouled out.
Last week Player sets a pick, the defensive player tries to go around and the screener rolls right into defensive player. Pretty obvious screening foul. Coach asks what he did. (Pretty calmly as a matter of fact) I tell him the kid screened and then rolled into him. Coach tells me that kids can roll anyway they want... (yeah right) Coach in this game eventually is tossed... However doing higher level games I have heard the good coaches say to a player who has just picked up his second foul early on a screen, You see how it is going to be called this game, clean it up... The coach knows his kid sets picks and many marginal ones and wont get away with them so the kid cleans it up. Another set of refs would not call em and they would probably set bad picks all night.
Same tournament, coach tells me something and I ask him if he is accusing me of cheating He says No I just want you to keep it fair... I then told him that he now is accusing me of cheating, and that I would not listen to him the rest of the game.
How many times does a coach hear a slap and see a swipe at the ball, and the slap is the shooter? Been there seen that.
I truly have a hard time believing that a coach would have the best angle of a jump shot at the other end of the floor when there are 10 players running around and at least two officials. But maybe you did because one official was out of "position". BUt were the officials really out of position? I have heard the "You need to be in position to make that call" when I was exactly in the right position... The coach just did not know where "right position" was...
I do know coaches who know exactly where were are supposed to be and have herad coaches yell " If you made that call then who was watching off ball! because that is your partenrs call"! I would love to see the instant replay of this one foul...
Remember three fouls and a T rarely influence a game. What we dont know here what were the turnovers? How many turnovers were unforced? How many free-throws were missed? what was the shooting percentage of each team? We all make mistakes, but when you add them up the losing team usually makes more that the winning team and the referees combined.
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