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Old Tue Nov 05, 2013, 03:34pm
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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
This has nothing to do with basketball honestly. People that are competitive on some level, want to achieve everything they can for as long as they can. When they fail or lose out those people cannot handle the lack of success or if others get successful at their expense. This is pure life. It could be about a woman, a job opportunity or who has the bigger house. It is all the same with human beings and it comes out in this area of our lives just like anything else. Basketball officiating IMO is no different. This is just another year of the same thing.
Well said. And really sums it up perfectly. Every association I've been a member of (there are 8) it's been the same. Human nature.
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