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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
JR, every call can not be made in a vacuum. If you are letting marginal contact go when B1 is shooting in the post at one end but your partner(s) is sending A1 to the free throw line on the same contact at the other then you don't have consistency and Coach B will soon be earning a Technical foul. It most definitely has to addressed in the pre-game and, if need be, at halftime.
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If you're doing the job properly, you're not making close block/charge calls...or any call.... in a vacuum. You're making the call as per what happened on that particular call
ONLY, not on what happened on some call that might have occurred a half ago. Consistency doesn't mean that
ALL close calls must be either a block or a charge. Doing it the way that you suggest is nothing but a cop-out imo. Any official who has become competent, proficient and experienced at a certain level is good enough to make any call based solely on the merits of that call
only. They are also as equally competent, experienced and efficient to deal with the consequences of the calls that they make.
Imo you are giving way too little credit to the majority of officials out there who are good enough to pick out the subtle differences in what might appear to be similar calls, but are are actually quite different...maybe because a defender might have slightly leaned sideways at the very last second, or something similar to that. And only one official on the floor might be in a position to pick out that subtle difference. Does that mean that he's still not supposed to make the right call because all previous calls have been charges?
Sorry, but I don't agree with the "perception is reality" school of officiating. I believe that reality is reality.