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Originally Posted by btaylor64
JR,
Not trying to be sarcastic in any way but you are telling me that you have never had a block charge play that was so hard to distinguish that it could have went either way... Easily. If you haven't then you are the most fortunate man in the history of basketball.
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Of course I've had bang-bang calls that were close as hell. I just try to make what I think is the right call for that particular play without worrying about anything else. I don't worry about what coaches/players think and I sureashell don't worry or even think about who got the last bang-bang call.
Do you know what the real difference in these type of calls is imo? None of 'em are
exactly the same. There's some slight, subtle difference in all block/charge plays. That's why I think that you have to officiate the play, not history. The tape doesn't lie afterward either. You might have missed something because you couldn't get into optimal position because of, say, a quick break the other way. If there's a reason that you missed the call, you try to learn from it. No matter what though, you ain't gonna be right on all of 'em. And calling a game by saying that ALL close block/charge plays should be one or the other isn't gonna make you right ALL of the time either.
Btw, if you think that I'd change my mind if I sat in on some NBA training sessions, well, all I gotta say to that is the NBA has already admitted that they have very serious problems with their current training methods and they're going to have to work hard to correct them. From observation, I agree with that analysis. NBA officials are almost unanimously being dumped on these days by almost everybody it seems. Well, I don't think that it's the official's fault. I think that it's the fault of the people giving direction to those officials.