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Old Thu Dec 14, 2006, 05:23pm
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What would you do?

I am working a two man game. I am the 'L'. The ball is in the front court in 'T' primary. Visiting team is down by 1 point and with 25 seconds left to go in the game. The visiting team has the ball. The home team is in a tight 2-3 zone. The guard on the visiting team has a little defensive pressure on him. He is dribbling the ball and falls down, but continues to dribble the ball. He continues to dribble and gets up and continues to dribble. The 'T' calls a travel. Looking through the players I see everything. My partner is inexperienced. I go up to him and ask him can you travel while dribbling the ball. He says no. Then it hits him, he knows he made the wrong call. I told him I will let him change his call. The home coach is yelling that it is not a correctable error. I said he was right. It was an official's mistake and he is giving the ball back to the visiting team. The visting team wins by 1 point. The head coach thinks he got screwed on the traveling call. Anyway, afterwards at the local gas station we stop to get s drink before driving home. The visting team comes in and the visiting head coach. The visiting coach comes up to me and my partner and tells us that we showed a lots of integrity and guts for making the call right. Most guys would have let it gone he says. I thanked him for his comments. As we are getting into the car, parents of the home team tell us that we screwed their kids over. I have been told to make it right when it is wrong! I know we did the right thing.
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