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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
I'm sure most of the posts would have been to congratulate the crew for not ball watching, staying in their area and missing this huge call that the rest of the planet saw.
Right? No?
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My (serious) opinion?
There are absolutely no absolutes when it comes to officiating. Sometimes, the best thing for the game and the crew under certain circumstances might be to ballwatch, go out of our area, etc. This call might be a pretty good example of that. In end-of-close game situations, you had damn well better be ready to help each other out, whether it's on anticipated TO requests, last-second shots, screwed-up throw-ins, etc. You can set up so that you can look through your area to help out too.
In this particular situation, a veteran crew did what they had to do to avoid possibly causing one humongous cluster-f**k. Great job on their part imo.
If they hadda strictly adhered to the usual mechanics, we'd now be reading one heckuva lot of articles from the usual empty suits wondering how they coulda missed such an obvious call.
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
Jmo.