I agree with all of the above comments.
We have good and bad refs.
We have experienced/non-experienced refs.
We have good nights/bad nights.
We do not just blow our whistle and go home. Most fans/players, and some coaches do not realize what we have to do to become good refs. We must train and study.
Each year to retain our license, we must take a test and attend a rules interp meeting, and every three years (max), we must attend a six-hour camp.
This doesn't include our hours of reading and studing rules book, case books, referee magazine, reviewing game tapes, and attending association meetings. We do all of this because we love basketball and/or high school athletics.
And as someone else said,
"when a ref has a bad game, he/she usually knows it." A good ref learns form it.
If you substitute coach or player for ref, it in the above comment, I think you can also agree (as a coach or player).
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