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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Don't beat yourself up.
Sometimes officials just develop these mental blocks. After all, there are a lot of rules, and some of them keep changing all the time.
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Sometimes, officials learn the rules not from the rule books but from what they hear (on TV or other officials) without verifying the rule.
I had a partner call this very thing last week. The coach called him on it. I let him deal with it at the time and he stayed with it. I wasn't sure exactly what he'd called (other than that he had a violation) or why he called it.
Being summer league, we were hanging around the table as the next game was about to start. I wasn't going to ask him about it yet but the coach (politely) came to us wanting to talk about it a little more with my partner about it. I was brought into the conversation by my partner to clarify the rule and (after being sure he wanted my input....I'd have rather had this conversation in private) informed him that it was indeed not a violation at all...that his only option was a foul or nothing.