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Originally Posted by Mwanr1
1) We always exercise our personal judgement even if the rule is perfectly clear.
2)Your evaluator would also question your game-awareness. "Chi, you know White doesn't have any more time out, why did you grant it?" Your reply would be, "because I'm the only person in the entire gym that heard it." Not buying it!
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1) And if you ignore a perfectly clear rule, then your judgment is faulty.
2) I disagree completely with that statement also. I haven't met an evaluator yet that agrees with that philosophy either. That includes me. If I have an official come up with some lame excuse for not granting an excess TO request, then I gotta tell you that official is going back to middle school games. He just showed me that he doesn't have the testicular fortitude to call at any level higher than that. It has nothing to do with game awareness either. The official that called the "T" in the 1993 NCAA championship game sureashell had game awareness. He was aware that Michigan had no TO's left and he was also aware that the rules made him grant the TO request. Making up excuses not to make a righteous call has got absolutely nothing to do with game awareness.