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Larry S, I'm a baseball ump, not a basketball ref, but one of my best friends is a long-time high school and junior college coach. We were talking about umpires stretching the strike zone in baseball blowouts, and he mentioned his own frustration with basketball refs who, before varsity games, would keep JV blowouts going by calling minor infractions and not letting the clock run out. I'm sure he would agree that you were right to overlook the 3-second call you mentioned.
Especially at the lower levels, the ump who calls everything by the book will make a lot of enemies. I suspect that's true in basketball, too.
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