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Originally Posted by BayStateRef
For those who thought it was not a travel, the video proved you wrong. That is another lesson. Video review helps a lot. Get videos. Break them down. Be tough on yourself. For most of my high school games, there is no video. But at some gyms, the local cable stations do a major production...with multiple cameras and their own replays. These videos are excellent..
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The video did not prove anyone wrong because these are always judgment calls. Some people want to suggest ball control took place at different times than others and that is always going to be the case and will never change.
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Originally Posted by BayStateRef
I am uncomfortable with those who say because it is close, we shouldn't make the call. We are responsible for getting the calls right -- even the close ones. We are expected to see if the foot is on the line or not and rule accordingly. We need to constantly learn how to be better....positioning, recognition, rules knowledge, hustle. They all matter. But so does the recognition that getting a call wrong is not a sin nor a reflection that we are bad officials.
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That is not what anybody said. What people actually said is it would be difficult to catch that much detail in real time and there are those that could not describe what happen in real time when they saw the play live. You do not use standards that have nothing to do with the rule to make your case. Because if you had to describe this to a coach after you called a travel, I hope you can tell them more than steps or how far they moved when they are 6'6" and can make normal running strides rather lengthy. And if someone said the term "over the back" or "reaching" to describe an "obvious" foul, I would have the same questions if we were looking at a close play. If you cannot even use rulebook language to describe what took place and basically default to some standard, then when something is close I do not have to accept your viewpoint in these kinds of cases.
The overall problem I have is really not with this play, it is that we could show any play and people here (many that commented on how obvious this was) would find the travel every single time. It would be a verticality play and they say someone traveled. It could be a intentional foul call on video, and they see the travel. I have said consistently that traveling is the most inconsistently applied rule in the entire game of basketball and sometimes the hardiest to see. That is not going to change because people feel one way about this particular play.
Peace