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Originally posted by Kelvin green
Kind of interesting that when you watch an NBA game, there are a lot less double whistles and you still have three officials on the floor. They have learned thier primary and know when to call it I think that in a lot of ways double whistles are called in NCAA because there are all the conferences and each supervisor wants it a different way or something ...

As you know Kelvin, in the NBA, certain contact will always be called a foul and other situations won't be called. That's to say, the officials are all on the same page. The officiating is more consistent since there's one supervisor and one accepted way to officiate the game. They officiate their primary and they trust their partners.