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Indy_Ref, IMO one of the refs must stay back in any fight situation to take note of things going on.
Jerry Blum, while I understand your feelings about the pro game we should understand that the NBA officials are the best officials in the world. They are all on the same page (6 figures and benefits will cause that) and call games with consistency. We might not like how the game is played but we should adopt some of their philosophies. If they changed the way they called the game it wouldn't be pretty. For instance, Shaq would foul out of games and get called for traveling but he would also shoot 40 (maybe not 40 but a ton!) free-throws a game. It should also be noted that someone on this forum pointed out that they don't even have the same rules for such things as traveling as we do in the high school and college game. Another contributing factor is the fact that the American game of basketball is on the decline from a skill perspective. Maybe the US Olympic committee and the NBA should pay for some skill camps at the high school level across the country. If Little Johnny can't execute the pick and roll, shoot an open twenty footer, the pull up jumper, layups on both sides, box out and play good defense but Little Johnny is 6' 9' with a 43" vertical guess what Little Johnny is going to do? Multiply Little Johnny by 10,000, add a full AND1 season and the American "me first" attitude and you come up with a product that we just don't like.
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