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Originally Posted by tadams
Back to the topic.....
So I am new to basketball, have done a ton of baseball. The original post was do you treat the 5th foul differently. I read all the posts and watched this thread wonder. I have heard "it better be good", "nothing cheap", give it to someone else if you can.
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Actually this is what the OP said. He did not suggest anything about treating it differently. He said do you take notice when a player gets their 4th foul. Here are his comments below.
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Originally Posted by Clark Kent
I realize we won't find it anywhere in the manuals but how aware should we be of the player's and their foul situations? Do you take notice when a kid picks up his/her 4th not wanting to give them a cheap 5th? Or do you go about your modus operandi as if that is part of the game and a foul is a foul regardless of how many the kid has?
I assume I will get both answers here so for those who do take note how do you go about it? If the team has a scoreboard that indicates the player's fouls I have been able to take note there, however when there isn't a scoreboard with such features how do you wise sagacious veterans go about knowing?
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Originally Posted by tadams
I understand game management is always an issue. Maybe basketball is different but come on guys have some balls. As an official you are there to bring fairness to the game and apply the rules. Any vetern official will say to a rookie that the most important thing to learn as an official is to be consistant. By not calling the foul you are intentionally being unfair to the other team. Shame on you. If your standards of fouls change as the game progresses you deserve the grief you get. If it was a foul you would have called on a player with 0 fouls it has to be a foul on a player with 4.
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This is why people are saying you guys are "implying" what was said. I do not recall saying anything about not calling a foul or calling it on the wrong player. I will say that there are often fouls where we have to choose a player. That involves judgment and if there is a situation where you do not know for sure, you pick one. How people come to that conclusion is always going to be different from one person to another. Some will say pick the least of the two that will not cause the most trouble. Others say pick the problem child. But I will say I am not calling a multiple foul that is for sure.
And you and JAR have not shown any comment where someone said not to call a foul. Actually all they said was "make it be there." One thing I have figured out, what is considered a "good call" is based on a lot of judgment and personal feelings. What I may think is good, you may think is bad. There is never going to be a way to close the gap. Because I might think most of your fouls are terrible and even if you call the 5th foul to your liking, I may not like any of the other fouls, while you thought you were calling the right things. All of this is subjective and always will be on some level.
Peace