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Originally Posted by slow whistle

Earlier this year I had a situation where team A was murdering team B - final score broke a local scoring record and they won by like 80 pts, but pressed from the opening tip to the final horn. While personally I didn't think much of the team A coach for doing what he was doing, as an official it is/was not my responsibility to alter the way the game was being called...one of my partners on the other hand came in at halftime and was visibly upset with the strategy of team A...he basically said in so many words that every time a team A player breathed on a team B player he was calling a foul...my response at the time was "lets just call our games", but sure enough he proceeded to whistle a foul every time team A even approached a team B player, we were 9-0 on fouls at one point (please refrain from the "why does this matter" routine, it mattered b/c of the way that it happened)...made for a very uncomfortable second half...what would you all have done in this situation?

You talked with him at half, albeit not very forcefully. After that, I'd just get in, get done, get out. If asked, I would tell him that my opinion is that his second half approach to the game is wrong. I would then not ask him about his take, either.