Here's where we are:
1. This is the rule.
2. This is how we're going to call it.
The two seem to be getting farther apart to me.
In the NBA and the NCAA a travel immediately followed by a shot attempted is often ignored, apparently by design. I see too many to believe otherwise.
I have not seen the play at hand. Apparently it is a given that Kidd did indeed move the pivot foot. (minutely?)
Unwritten rule: If the violation is minute, it could/should/must be ignored?
This sucks. Now we must decide what is minute.
The argument that it was not seen in real time is often valid, but not the point. If I miss it, it's just missed. Sometimes the miss is justified, sometimes not. But if I see it, and I call it, and any replay does confirm it, nobody can complain.
If making a technically correct call, no matter how minute, keeps me from returning anywhere, I don't care to be there.
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I swear, Gus, you'd argue with a possum.
It'd be easier than arguing with you, Woodrow.
Lonesome Dove
Last edited by just another ref; Sat May 28, 2011 at 04:08pm.
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