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Originally posted by braboa
Afterwards, a Team A player says I shouldn't have decided the game with the foul. If I don't call the foul I'm still deciding the game -just in Team A's favor right?
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I wish all the officials I work with understood this basic principle. If a player engages in conduct that was called a foul all game long and then does it again but the official does not call the foul because it was in a close game near the end, then the official, not the players, are determining the outcome of the game.
I don't know why this is so hard to understand. Well, maybe I do. It's part of the "old boy" philosophy of calling the game the same way the old-timers called it and not "rocking the boat" by adhering to the rules.
Frankly, that attitude sucks.
BTW - officials commit no fouls. We just point them out to the scorer when they occur.