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Originally posted by SMEngmann
The way I read your post, which could be wrong, is that your opinion is that even if you've got no matchups in your primary and you see your partner miss an obvious foul that you should pass on it because "it's not in my area." I disagree with that philosophy, that's why I quoted you.
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For the most part you are right. I will go anywhere on the court for a non-basketball play. If I have nobody in my primary I will go to the next competitive matchup which many people seem to think is automatically where the ball is. That smells of ball-watching to me. How convenient is it to have all the players in a position where there is nobody in a primary AND the next competitive match-up is on-ball?
We really haven't heard - in neither one of these threads - if the whistle was delayed a beat, which it should be most of the time when making a call in your (all officials') primary.
To each his/her own, but after asking several people, picturing possible situations in my head and thinking about it while I'm on the court (before the games), this line of thinking just isn't for me. I've never been taught to do this and it isn't something I instinctively do. I wouldn't want someone to do it in a game I'm working.