To reach or not reach

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"Let him live and die with it" drives me nuts. Mostly because it's not just him that's dying with a bad miss or no-call; the whole crew suffers. Do you think the coaches care whose PCA it is? They perceive us as one unit and they just want us to get the dang play right. An egregious miss or no-call makes the whole crew look bad and makes for the beginning of a long night.

Working last night with a D-II Mens official. I was lead, he was C. Defender blows through a good screen just outside the opposite elbow from me, knocks the screener on his butt. I hesitate a sec but think the C is watching the dribbler who is using the screen and has missed it. So I take a big step out onto the court while putting air in it and raising my arm when I see the C is now calling the foul. So I back down and think nothing of it. At half the guy asks me why I'm looking in his primary. I told him I gave him a crack at it but thought he was going to pass or had missed the obvious illegal contact and I had to go grab it. He was ticked and told me never to do that again.

I just don't understand that logic. I was already looking up toward the FT line area anyway and saw a foul with 100% certainty. I think I was completely in the right but he thought the opposite.