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Originally Posted by OKREF
Play 3. I don't understand what the trail is looking at. He isn't straight lined, the defender doesn't block his vision. It looks to me like he just passes on a blatant travel.
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By no means am I defending him, because it was so clearly and obviously a miss, but the only thing I can think is that the player's body was between him and the ball, and he incorrectly assumed that the player had to have taken a dribble, because what D1 athlete travels that bad?!!
A slightly analogous situation, the play that I call late or possibly miss the most especially at the varsity level or higher is double dribble. Not because it's a hard call to make, but it catches me off guard every single time, because what player doesn't realize that they can't do that? My only thought for play 3 is that the official incorrectly thought that he simply didn't see the dribble.