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Originally Posted by Rich
Adjust your thinking. A crew-saving call is one where everyone in the gym thinks there should be a whistle and it harms the credibility of the crew to "pass" on it.
The T could easily make this call, if needed. He should have an open look and his eyes should have gone there with the imminent crash with no other competitive matchup. Who knows why the C didn't blow on it, but this isn't a case of trusting that the C/L had a better look -- it was clearly a foul.
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He eyes maybe should have gone there, but he would have no way of knowing there was an imminent crash. That secondary defender came from the opposite side of the free throw lane. There was another secondary sliding over that was coming from his side of the court.
That's expecting a lot to say he "SHOULD" have been looking at what would be his terciary area, when the ball-handler left his primary, and a defender was moving towards the play from his secondary. He had 2 partners in perfect position to call this play. For all we know he was caught so off-guard, by the time he thought to put a whistle on it, it was too late. And anything the Trail calls on this play is still a total guess.