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Originally Posted by dsqrddgd909
For us newer officials, is there any guidance you can give to differentiate minnows from whales?
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In the OP, what makes it so bad is the combination of all things:
1. The distance. This is actually the least of it. In a two man game, when you have a couple of turnovers and have all players spread out in transition, making a call a long distance away is not so unusual, and sometimes necessary.
2. It was
right in front of me. There was no question of me being screened from the play or watching something else. It was all mine.
3. As others have said, it must really be something big to consider a whistle here and this definitely was not.
When you combine all the factors, I felt that it was hard to overstate to him how serious this was. I told him that for him to have a whistle here it should involve a big long roundhouse kick to the groin or something similar, followed by a significant pause to be sure his partner wasn't going to get it. And I then went on to explain that he shouldn't even have a whistle then, because he shouldn't have seen it because of where he was and where this exchange had taken place.