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Old Tue Feb 10, 2009, 09:56pm
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Originally Posted by rwest View Post
All I'm saying is don't interrupt the flow of the game by calling fouls that have no bearing on the game. Fouls that don't fall into the advantage/disadvantage or displacement categories.
These two statements say it all. Most of what you say, if I can read between the lines, makes a lot of sense, i.e. calling, or not calling, fouls based on advantage, and disadvantage. The problem is that we call, or don't call, fouls, based on advantage, and disadvantage, not to keep the game flowing, but to make sure that each team has a fair chance to win based on how well that team plays that night. We interrupt the game everytime we blow the whistle. That's part of the game of basketball. As an official, we should never, never, worry about interrupting the flow of the game.
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