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Originally Posted by Rich
Gotta say, I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about a call I made at the other end of the floor. I try to make every call a solid call on its own. I think this official failed twice, but it happens.
Rich,
I usually agree with a majority of your points, however this opinion of yours shocked me. I try to spend the whole game thinking about what my partners and myself called and what we passed on. I think this helps with crew consistency. Ultimately tht is what we are trying to achieve. Now don't get me wrong, if for some reason we as a creew miss a felony, you can bet your bottoem dollar that I will get a felony next play down the court. Can't miss an obvious foul beacuase we missed an earlier one....
I remember years ago, I had a game with two VERY seasoned veterans. We had two teams whose coached combined had 1,300 wins and these guys didn't know me from Adam ( not Adam from this site  ) I remember the first three minutes running up an down calling a couple out of bounds and watching what they called. I thought they were missing fouls, but I followed their lead and the night went pretty well.
No way as trail in the 2nd play am I calling a foul after passing on first play..... |
Two wrongs don't make a right, either.
If I miss one (and I know I miss one) at one end, I'm not going to miss one at the other end to make up for it. Being consistently wrong isn't always better than being inconsistent.
(Baseball analogy: Let's say I call the first pitch of the game a strike. The pitch is at the neck and I screw up the call to high heaven. Do I now call every pitch there a strike the rest of the game?)
We can debate the merits of the first call (I think he missed a foul), but the second call was simply not a foul based on what I'm seeing and the fact that the L, right in front of it, passed on it. It has NOTHING to do with the pass at the other end. That's all I'm saying.
Crew consistency is important, yes, but I don't think you can used missed calls when it comes to adjusting to be consistent as a crew.
Sure, we all have our own philosophies and we try to be on board with each other as best we can. Our mechanics set, though, recognizes that we aren't going to be truly consistent from official to official -- otherwise why would we ever switch after fouls?
All we can do is hope, via film study and training, that we can move most of our officials to a place where we all agree what's a foul and what isn't. The NCAA does that via its video bulletins. We do it by our HS associations and video study. I would argue many of us do it looking at video and arguing about it here.