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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Whatinthell has knowing how many fouls a PLAYER has have to do with "game awareness"? 
You're talking about a whole different topic than that.
Yes, it's fine to know how many team fouls each TEAM has. Yes, it's equally fine to also know the reasons behind a disparate foul count. Doodah doodah. Those are basics that can be labeled "game awareness".
But AGAIN.....none of that has a damn thing to do with having to know when any PLAYER on the court has four fouls. I defy anyone to give me a good reason for possessing that particular tidbit of knowledge if the game is being called fairly, evenly and equally. And believe me, so far nobody has even come close imo to having a good reason for their having to absolutely know when any PLAYER has accumulated four fouls.
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JR, why are you so AGAINST officials knowing that a player has 4 fouls?? I want to be aware of lots of things - how many time-outs a team has left. Whether a team has used all their 30 second time-outs. How many team fouls each team has. Do any of the players have 4 fouls. I like to know all of that stuff...like M&M said, it absolutely does NOT affect the way I call the game, but if I know these things, then my crew doesn't look like bozos when we ask the coach "Is that a full or 30, Coach?" and the coach snaps back "All I have are fulls!" and when the 5th foul is called, it doesn't take us by surprise and we are ready to handle that situation because we already knew the kid had four...why is that such a bad thing to you??