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Old Mon Jul 11, 2005, 11:33am
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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
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Originally posted by rainmaker


the logic runs like this:

Anything that Team A does gives them an advantage. That's because they're a lot better than Team B. So if what they are doing is illegal, it's an illegal advantage, and you have to call it. This doesn't mean that you're making anything up. It just means that with those borderline calls, you're calling stuff that you might not call in a game where the skill level is closer.
Juulie - don't you think this can be construed as penalizing team A for having superior skills? What happened to the theory of "if a foul is a foul at the beginning, it's a foul at the end - if it isn't, then it isn't"?
That's just it, it's a theory. All theories sound great in abstract, but few hold up as well in practice.

I guess, part way through a game, none of us have ever conversed with our partner(s) and decided to "tighten" it up? I mean, we were not calling some of that a foul at the beginning of the game, but NOW the game dictates it needs to be one.

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