Partner Trouble

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by BigJoe
Juulie,

Do you really care how many fouls a player has when you are on the court? I used to work with an official who would point out at halftime or during time-outs which players had three or four fouls and to admonish me not to hand these players a "cheap" foul. In my feeble mind, I think it is the players' and the coaches problem to see that the player doesn't pick up that fifth foul. If we start basing our calls on how many fouls a player has on them, we are in big trouble. I'm not talking about game management toward team fouls, just individual fouls. This guy also thought we should try to keep the team fouls close. This is another bunch of manure!! Sorry for the ranting, but there are alot of officials out there who do that.

I am not yet able to keep track of individual fouls too closely. But all the folks whose path I want to follow do keep track, so I figure I'd better learn how, too. It's not so much that I don't want to foul anyone out. Or the opposite. But I do think that there is advantage to just knowing as much as I can possibly cram in.