Coach takes a charge!!!

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CMc,

One danger that I could envision by an official taking it upon himself to keep the game exciting is that of the effect of not making calls early on, and then the play gets REALLY rough (perhaps because nobody has any fouls).

Later on in the game the official might be thinking to himself, "I didn't call that earlier, so I can't really call it now".

Then somebody gets hurt.

This happened at the game I attended last Tuesday; A1 was going after a loose ball, got control, and B1 came running after it and collided HARD with A1 (concussion-hard...A1 was OK, but you get the idea). Foul WAS called, but he (along with the rest of Team B) had several to give.

That was one sloppy basketball game from all parties involved (A,B, and O's).