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Originally posted by hooper
Do you officiate any differently during, say, the last couple minutes of a very close game? For example, do you "let them play" more readily?
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Art MacDonald preaches to us to call the fouls at the end of the game. Give each team its chance to win the game at the line. Don't give a coach the chance to say "you missed that one".
We're not going to start calling 3-seconds or illegal screens in the last 30 seconds of the game if we haven't had them in the rest of the game. In other words, we're
not going to call the game differently at the end of the game. But our concentration and focus are going to be at their peak, and if the foul is there, we
have to get it.
[Edited by ChuckElias on Jan 12th, 2006 at 09:11 AM]