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Originally posted by canuckrefguy
Just need to bleed my soul a bit....
BV game, visitors down by 2, last :25 or so of the game. I'm new lead (2-person), we're in quick transition as home team pushes ball up court. I turn my head, then look back, see tail end of major collision at centre court, with two bodies hitting the floor, and visiting team stealing the ball back. No call from partner. I did not see the whole play - so no way am I going there. Home coach and fans screaming for foul.
Visitors set up half-court. Forward cuts to wing and gets pass. I see him do the double shuffle and dribble by a guy, so I call travel. V coach, who has been great all night, goes on about "the makeup call", as do the visiting fans. It must have looked bad. Visitors foul, Home team cans FT's down the stretch, and win by 5.
Later, I say to partner I may have been too quick with the travel call. He gives me the ole "gotta call the last minute like you do the first". But my guts are churning all the way home - I'm still thinking I should have passed on the travel. Dang. 
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Whyinhell are you second-guessing yourself so much, Canucklehead? You know better than that. You didn't fall into the trap of making a call on a play where you weren't sure what the right call actually was. Then you went out a got a righteous call that had to be made. Two wrongs never make a right in our racket, and with your experience you
know that. What you did was about all that any good official could really do in a situation like that.
Gee, you mighta missed a call. Note the word "mighta". I think that maybe in the history of basketball that other officials mighta missed the odd one too(like me in every game probably that I ever did). If you only missed one in that game, you just did the the game of your life. No good official likes or wants to miss any call, but doo-doo happens.
Note that this ain't just another phony pep talk either. It's a "been there-done that" talk. You know what happened in this sitch, and you know that there really wasn't much different that you coulda done.