Foul calling

[JetMetFan]

I've heard it as well. The caveat I got was if they both made contact, choose the non-star. It goes hand-in-hand with if we know one kid has 4 fouls and another has 2, give the foul to the kid who has 2 unless you have no choice.

I had the "star" foul situation happen a few years ago in a BV semi-final game. Starting point guard for team A picked up two fouls in the first five minutes. Kid on team B drove to the hoop, the point guard hacked him and I called the foul. As I was going to the table one of my partners said - out loud - "did you have that on 22 or 11?" I said "22!" Then we talked about it during a timeout. I told him I knew what he wanted me to do but there was also no way I could've called the foul on 11 since that kid was a good six feet away from the play. My thought also was it was the star's responsibility not to commit a lazy foul. It also wouldn't have been fair to his teammate.

[Jesse James]

Anyone who does this is a crook, and deserves to be called one.

[scrounge]

I'm not quick or smart or experienced enough to regularly do this. If it's truly a case of two players fouling and making the tiebreaker the non-star, sure, I guess. But anything more than that smacks of manipulation...and once you go down that road, how do you get out of it?

[Raymond]

Maybe the player scores so much b/c every game he's allowed 6-7 fouls while everyone else is done after 5.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

I called a foul on Visiting teams start last night in the 2nd Q, It was her 3rd foul. The first I had called on her.

At half time my partner, the R comes to me and tells me that if I have a choice to call the foul on someone around her give it to them because people don't want to see the stars foul out. While I have heard this before, I have always given the foul to the person I see commit the foul.

He later did just what he said he was going to do, clearly the star fouled the girl going to the basket, he gives it to her team mate, it was the team mates 4th foul.
Thoughts?

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

I've heard it as well. The caveat I got was if they both made contact, choose the non-star. It goes hand-in-hand with if we know one kid has 4 fouls and another has 2, give the foul to the kid who has 2 unless you have no choice.

This is all that I'll do. Anything else isn't supported by rule or case.