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Originally posted by dblref
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Team A jacks up a 3 (I'm trail) and I signal the 3, shot goes in. Same time, hear partner's whistle for a Team B push-off on rebound. Counted the 3 and Team A got the ball back because of the foul. Team B howler monkey was P/O'd about the call, but aren't they always?
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Must be infectious... Same thing happened to me last night (Boys JV game)!
As for consideration of advantage/disadvantage, these two teams (rivals) were banging from the tip-off. My partner and I stressed sportsmanship in the pre-game conference, whistled the first contact, we both gave "unheeded" verbal warnings early in the first quarter. We halted the game and gathered the captians and coaches and reminded them that they needed to get their teams under control or we would be forced to continue the whistles.
Needless to say, we were forced to continue whistling. We ended up in the bonus for both teams in the 1st and 3rd quarters and double bonus early in the 2nd and 4th quarters. Both teams had deep benches and used them freely.
The players (both sides) seemed to be affected by murphy's law or some strange force, if they saw an opportunity to foul they would chose it. Most of it was petty stuff: "contact on a reach", extending a hip/elbow on a pick, PUSHING while attempting to "steal" a rebound from behind (Over the back, for the howler monkeys
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51 fouls later, the final horn rang. Home - 42 Visitors - 79.
It was ugly.
[Edited by williebfree on Jan 30th, 2002 at 11:00 AM]