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Originally Posted by Kingsman1288
Perhaps I should have made the level of the game clearer. It was a combined 6th and 7th grade team. When the coach of Team A finally backed off the press, Team B actually made it past half court but not much further. The final score differential ended up being 40 points, so my actions didn't cost them a win at all. Not even close. This what not something I arbitrarily did on my own either, my partner and I talked about it at halftime.
So I guess I should have let Team A humiliate Team B?
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Your job is to officiate the rules of basketball. Nothing more.
Once you start worrying about teams/players getting "humiliated"* you enter into very dangerous territory as an official. Would you call fouls on cleanly blocked shots just because the crowd reacts wildly to a kid getting his $%*& stuffed? Would you call a technical on a kid for posterizing another kid on a dunk?
Just blow the whistle when you see an infraction of the rules as you interpret them. Going outside that scope is a slippery slope you don't want to go down.
Just my $0.02.
*outside of unsportsmanlike conduct, of course.