Today I snapped!

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by bas2456

I was nowhere near the end line. Not sure if I said that in the OP. My partner yesterday called maybe three fouls all game, and was otherwise extremely lazy all game. I thought there needed to be a foul called there, so I called it. Next time, I'll take everyone's advice into account, and learn from it. We're always trying to improve aren't we?

Let me try to have you think about it in this manner, who was watching the players in your primary area while you were observing the action and calling a foul in the backcourt?
What if a player picked that time to elbow his opponent in the mouth down on your end? You'd look pretty silly missing it. When you are responsible for a line (OOB call), you have to still focus 80%-90% of your attention on the contact in your PCA and glance at the action near the line out of your area of responsibility. A quick glance is all that you should be having down the sideline into the backcourt in such a situation. That isn't enough to determine whether or not to call a foul, and so that decision must be left up to your partner.

[bas2456]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Let me try to have you think about it in this manner, who was watching the players in your primary area while you were observing the action and calling a foul in the backcourt?
What if a player picked that time to elbow his opponent in the mouth down on your end? You'd look pretty silly missing it. When you are responsible for a line (OOB call), you have to still focus 80%-90% of your attention on the contact in your PCA and glance at the action near the line out of your area of responsibility. A quick glance is all that you should be having down the sideline into the backcourt in such a situation. That isn't enough to determine whether or not to call a foul, and so that decision must be left up to your partner.

Point well taken. While this situation is unlikely to happen, it certainly could. I did call an intentional foul later in the game. Had the intentional happened before this particular situation, there may have been a player thinking retaliation.