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Originally Posted by bas2456
I was nowhere near the end line. Not sure if I said that in the OP. My partner yesterday called maybe three fouls all game, and was otherwise extremely lazy all game. I thought there needed to be a foul called there, so I called it. Next time, I'll take everyone's advice into account, and learn from it. We're always trying to improve aren't we?
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Let me try to have you think about it in this manner, who was watching the players in your primary area while you were observing the action and calling a foul in the backcourt?
What if a player picked that time to elbow his opponent in the mouth down on your end?
You'd look pretty silly missing it. When you are responsible for a line (OOB call), you have to still focus 80%-90% of your attention on the contact in your PCA and glance at the action near the line out of your area of responsibility. A quick glance is all that you should be having down the sideline into the backcourt in such a situation. That isn't enough to determine whether or not to call a foul, and so that decision must be left up to your partner.