Correctable error quandry

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Toren

Correctable errors are errors caused by officials. These are our errors. If A1 is told to take some free throws, how many of us would be open to him telling us "my teammate was the one fouled"? So there is no onus on the player to inform us of our mistake.

It is our job, and that's why we get paid handsomely, to know who fouled, who got fouled, what time is on the clock, if we are shooting bonus free throws, if we are in the double bonus, etc etc.

If you called a Technical on a player for deliberately taking free throws that an official gave to him, then you are just compounding the issue. It is our mistake to begin with, fix it, move on.

Usually, CE's are not caused by the officials. They're caused by the scorekeeper providing the official incorrect information or not providing information...they indicated 6 fouls only to realize it was 7 (or 9 vs 10). Those the the most common CE's. The ramifications of the CE are such that each team risks losing something if it is not done right to start with. It is beneficial to the teams to keep their own stats so they can point out the discrepancy when it happens before the CE occurs.

The wrong shooter situation, which is probably the rarest CE situation, is usually either through confusion when more than one player may have been fouled or after a timeout when a team may try to switch shooters hoping the officials didn't notice (but they act like it was confusion). I've never called the T, I've told the right shooter to get to the line before we get to the point of having to issue the T.