[just another ref]

Originally Posted by btaylor64

Someone said something about staying in your primary and not worrying about what they call. I am only using this to illustrate my point that you have to have an awareness of what your partners are calling, so in the possible chance that you have had some 50/50 plays go one way, you can recall that situation on those previous 50/50 plays in your area and do the right thing for the game by balancing the game out when those play come to you. Now i'm not saying you have to balance the floor back out when you are getting plays coming to you that are a little below obvious, it needs to be a play that fans, coaches, and players alike say "that was a play that could have went either way."

I don't buy all this. It is up to us to look at the play that the fans, coaches, and players see as 50/50 and make the correct call as best we can. It was probably 50.05/49.95. If your mind is clouded by the last close call, it can easily serve to tip the delicate balance to the wrong side.