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Originally Posted by fiasco
Or we could just keep making blanket judgments about how awesome we all would have been at preventing any bad stuff from happening if we had been doing the game, because we're all so much more awesome than the officials in the video.
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It's not a blanket statement nor does it have anything to do with me or saying how awesome I am.
It's clear that on the specific plays shown the officials did not close down, did not immediately talk to #34 (other than good naturedpat on the backside at the FT line), and did not get together to at least discuss the possibility of upgrading to intentional or flagrant.
The video evidence also makes it very clear to me that #34 did not come to play basketball that night and that myself and most of the officials I work with would have found opportunities to foul him out of the game before foul #5 took place. I don't know these officials, maybe they are top rate quality officials most of the time.
But on this night, on these plays, they were incompotent IMO. And that's why this video is being shown at association meetings across the country as a training resource.
So you can call it officiating machismo or make all of the flippant statements you want. It doesnt change the fact that what is on this tape is an example, and is being used as such, of incompotent officiating in regards to controlling rough play.