mixed emotions

[devdog69]

Varsity boys game, three man crew with pretty good partners. We are all on the same page trying to stay out of the game, letting them play, it was what I would call physical but not rough. Mostly because both teams were bad and couldn't catch the ball so a lot of loose ball situations. I am in "C", A1 comes down with rebound directly in front of my partner at "L", as he comes down with the ball B1 bumps him from behind. I don't call a foul for several reasons, it was unintentional, once B realized A had secured the ball he backed off, it was consistent with what we were allowing in the game, it was right in front of my partner. A1 is now teetering on the out of bounds line and looses the ball out of bounds, here is where I should have gotten a foul on B1 with a slow whistle I think, it would have been really late though. "L" apparently was totally unaware of the contact from B1, he blows the whistle and gives the ball to B. A1 is upset and gets a quick "T" from my partner, now I really think I blew it. After the game my partner says "I don't know what he was whining about it was his teammate that pushed him". That is when I fessed up and said "no, he had a legitimate complaint, I had a good angle and saw B1 with the contact from behind, I should have came in and got the foul". Not too big of a deal in the overall scheme of the game, but something to think about.