[JRutledge]

JAR,

I just think this is a topic you cannot understand. If you cannot understand what you called before does not relate to what you will have to call in the future, then we really need to stop having this conversation. It is simple, if you have 3 or 4 fouls on a player (star player or valued player), you better make that 5th one a good one and not call something you have not been calling the rest of the game or give a cheap one. If you have an 8-1 foul disparity, and you miss fouls on the team that only called one foul against, the tape might be the thing the coach uses to say you are a horrible official and send to your supervisor. No one remembers the first foul of the game. Everyone remember the foul that sent the team to the line with seconds left that decided the game. If that is hard to understand, then I really do not know what to tell you. And if you do not officiate that way, that is fine with me, I do. And it has worked for me very well for years.

Peace