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[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by pressbreak

Because, IMHO, you ruin the game otherwise. Players are playing the game, players adjust, and coaches coach their players to adjust...thats the game. There are a lot of things to adjust to, but adjusting is part of *their* game. The lines on the court are consistent, they don't move. The height of the basket doesn't move. Your judgment of what is a charge is based on what you see: it is what it is. I (a coach) may disagree, I may think you need to go back to ref school, your partner may see things different, you may be taking a big move out of my star player that got us to this "big game"....well, maybe we can all analyze that after the game.

In the meantime, during the game we do the adjusting, we change our lineup, our D, our matchups, we cry, we yell, we do the human stuff. Like the same I ask from the ball, don't get all gestalt on me...you are human (of course ;-) you make mistakes, yeah, don't remind me! Be consistent and let me think you are a robot that has no emotions, that doesn't know this is a big game, don't care our star is in big foul trouble, etc...The gestalt ref may be the new wave though. You saythese concepts are taught in camps? Interesting, very interesting...

Huh.. Me confused...