You will find that many officials make calls or non-calls that are score dependent. I personally use a 20 point rule in HS. If the team is down by 20 or more and commits a violation (travel, toe on the line, bounces the ball as you described on a throw-in, etc.), I don't call it. Of course, I have two other idiots out there with me who probably will.
PS My game tonight, the coach of the team that is winning by 30+ tells me, "Their screens are horrible! Watch that." My thought (to myself) was "So is everything else they do." I didn't call an illegal screen the whole game.
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