How to ask for help

[just another ref]

Originally posted by bludevil1221
Don't call what you can't explain...

I agree with that, too, but that was not what we were talking about here. Example: JV boys game, kid had a steal and a breakaway layup. I whistled it off and called a travel. Coach stood up bugeyed. "You want to explain that call to me?" No problem. Between quarters I talked to him. "He took a little extra step in there, coach."
I demonstrated it for him. He was obviously not convinced, but made no further argument. I was about as certain of this call at the time as I had ever been. I later looked at video of the game. Guess what? No travel. The play bore little resemblance to the demonstration I gave for the coach. We can be wrong even when we are 100% sure. With that in mind, if I'm 99% sure that it was a foul, I think that I have to make the call. At what percentage do we draw the line? That is up to each individual. It is really impossible to name a number that means anything in this case, anyway.