[DownTownTonyBrown]

Had a similar call a couple years back to open my season... first game of the season, first call of the game. I'm lead. Drive comes from forward toward the baseline and then turns toward the key along the baseline. I jump accross the key to see the action. I'm about 3-5 feet away when the collision occurs. I fire up my fist yelling "BLOCK" and come booming out to report. Everyone seems uninterested in what I have to report. My new-to-varsity partner has already reported.... and reported a player control foul! Now the scorer's table wants to know which foul to put in the book. Neither of us was aware that the other had called anything.

Despite my call being made from the location of the foul and my "partner's" being made from 30 feet away I recanted and let his call stand. It was his side of the key and he had some cockamamie story about the dribbler leading into the defender with the non-dribbling arm. I didn't feel the defender was properly in position... basically he was first to report and I sucked it up and let him have the honor of embarrassing me.

It made us look stupid. I also can see how a coach would feel slighted. If the play can go either way why should only my player get a foul? That's a definite advantage as two centers go at it and one of them gets an extra foul.

Wish I would have been working with Chuck then both players would have been evenly penalized and we wouldn't have looked so poor. Of course there would probably have only been one whistle... right Chuck.