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Originally Posted by 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
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I think the problem with this topic and its responses are the different levels at which each officials work. What some here are trying to tell you is that at and cetain level of basketball you have to be more aware of what's going on. We like to refer to this as the game with-in the game. At other levels this is less important. But in order to move up to a higher level of basketball these things become important. If you don't work those levels and don't want to then, don't use them. But to say that not having the knowledge of who the best players are, and who has how many fouls isn't important is not going to get you very far as you try to move up.