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Originally posted by BloggingRefGuy
Team A is inbounding the ball in the fourth quarter of a close game. A2 gives a particularly ugly pick...throws her forearms out. I call her for the push, and confidently say: "Team control foul! B ball!" Everything is fine, and I hand the ball to team B on the end line...
and a thought hatches in my head. It was a throw-in. There's no team control. Damn.
If you were me...well, you would have gotten it right the first time (as I will henceforward). But if you were me, standing on the endline doing your 5-second count for B, would you:
1. Toot your whistle, say: "No! It's not a team control foul! It was a throw-in! One-and-one!" and walk everybody down to the other end for free throws? The benefit is that it's right...the detriment is it makes you look uncertain.
2. Let B in-bound the ball, figuring you're the only one who knows you've screwed up? The benefit is a smooth game, the detriment is that it's, well, wrong.
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Once you realized that you made a mistake and it still falls under the correctable error time frame you should have blown your whistle and fixed it.
This is very hard to do, especially when the ball is in play but we need to get the play right.
If you are beeing evaulated you will get hammered a lot harder for a misinterpretation of the rules more than stopping the game and looking bad for a few seconds.