Situational Officiating

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I don't buy that nonsense, regardless of who it comes from. If it's a foul early, it's a foul late. And vice versa.

+1

I touched on this recently. One of the biggest myths (and the biggest in my book) is, "you don't make that call at that point in the game." This sounds like the advice Rook was given, and I think it's wrong.

I've been taught that time and score do not affect the way we call games, ever. (Okay, maybe middle school games with 30-point margins.) The game is decided by the totality of the score, never by one late call (despite our memory capacities).

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by bainsey

One of the biggest myths (and the biggest in my book) is, "you don't make that call at that point in the game." This sounds like the advice Rook was given, and I think it's wrong.

While that may be mostly true (I don't agree with it being the biggest myth), it doesn't mean the call was correct - we'd need to see video to know if he should have made that call or not. The advice, however, was horrible. If the observer had said something to the affect of he shouldn't have made the call because it didn't disadvantage the dribbler, that I could understand.

[Duffman]

I think it's better let the game be decided in regulation than OT. If the foul occured with :30 seconds left the other team had plenty of time and opporutnity to score and in the game in regulation. The game was decided by the fact that THEY couldn't get it done, not because YOU blew a whistle with 30 seconds to go.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Duffman

I think it's better let the game be decided in regulation than OT.

I don't think this is relevant.

[Duffman]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I don't think this is relevant.

I simply meant that officials are under no obligation to make sure close games go to, and are decided in overtime.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Duffman

I simply meant that officials are under no obligation to make sure close games go to, and are decided in overtime.

I agree with that.

[Duffman]

My HS coach once taught me that if the game was decided late by an officials decision it was my own damn fault for letting the game be that close to begin with. I wish more coaches would teach that lesson.

[Texas Aggie]

I've made those sorts of calls, so I know where you are coming from, but the closer you get to the end of a very close game, you have to resist the urge to call fouls far from the basket. Absolute rule? Hell no. Its just a guide -- someone gets dusted and you make the call even if in the parking lot. But in general, the viewpoint of advantage/disadvantage CAN and DOES change as the game moves on and you want to keep what you do out of it as much as you can. When you are needed, you step in and make the call. Otherwise, don't.

What you called in the first half may or may not have a bearing on what you call later. Did you miss the earlier call? Were you attempting to clean something up (which never works below quality girls varsity, in my view)? You can't make an absolute saying that if you called it early you must call it late with 2 seconds left in a tie game.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bainsey

One of the biggest myths, and the biggest in my book

You've got a whole book? Are there pictures?

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

You've got a whole book? Are there pictures?

Yes, but you're too young to see them.

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

I'd say it's more that a team at the end doesn't have as much of a chance to recover from a mistake/missed called at the end of the games than at the beginning of the game.

Maybe, but that doesn't discount the fact that an officiating error in the first half of game can still affect the outcome of a game that ends with a 1-2 point margin. The spirit and intensity that often goes with basketball will cause people to say, "we'll overcome that," but when you look at it objectively and without passion (which isn't easy to do), the error still remains.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

You've got a whole book? Are there pictures?

Originally Posted by bainsey

Yes, but you're too young to see them.

So there's a centerfold? Is it Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.?