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Mechanics and communication can definitely make a difference. I was scouting a game the other night and team A's best player A3 had 2 player control fouls and an "over the back" pushing foul on a rebound in the first half. Being a stickler for mechanics and a fan of officiating.com (!), i noticed immediately that the officials were very sloppy with their mechanics and communication with the table. Lo and behold, at the beginning of the second half, coach B is telling his guys to "attack A3, he's got 3 fouls". On a B3 drive to the basket, A3 hacks B3 on the arm and a foul is called. When coach A asks the home (B) scorekeeper if A3 has 4, scorekeeper responds "thats his first foul coach". B3 goes ape $h!t, there's a 10 minute delay in the game trying to sort everything out. The official is condescendingly admonishing the young lady keeping the book. I guess the young lady had enough of the attitude from the official and says "you never said foul, you just punched and said a number, how am i supposed to know those are fouls? Aren't you supposed to come close to the table and tell me it's a foul?" They finally sorted it out, but it was just a mess that probably could have been avoided.
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