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Originally posted by physicsref
2. This talk of "a foul is a foul is a foul and is either always a foul or never a foul" is rubbish. Whatever happened to advantage/disadvantage? Yeah, a handcheck is a foul, but are you going to take away A1's drive for an open layup cause a handcheck is always a foul?
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The principle of advantage/disadvantage does not apply in relation to how may fouls a player already has. That's my point. It has nothing to do with deciding on a no call to avoid stopping a clear path to the basket on a hand-check, etc. That's part of my other point. If you make the decision to let this go, then you let it go the entire game, regardless of how many fouls a player has. Again, either a foul is a foul all the time, or it isn't all the time. If you decide it isn't in a particular situation, then it isn't in all of the same situations for the game. I have no problem with that.
There's a difference between knowing how many fouls a player has and everyone knowing you know how many fouls a player has. If the former does not influence your judgment on how you call the game, then that's how it should be. If it does help you represent how you manage a game in your court demeanor, that's a different story, and I think that's what Rut was trying to get across.
However, if everyone knows you know how many fouls a player has, especially late in a game, you are asking for trouble.
[Edited by Mark Padgett on Feb 12th, 2002 at 10:44 AM]