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re: Basketball: is it the hardest game to officiate?
Posted on 3/25/23 at 6:17 am to makersmark1
Posted on 3/25/23 at 6:17 am to makersmark1
It can be, depending on styles involved.
No crew wants to be the one to call 40 fouls on a known, aggressive defense like the old Georgetown press or Arkansas' 40 Minutes of Hell, and render the game unwatchable and over 3 hrs long. But at the same time, you have to avoid being conditioned into allowing them to manhandle the opponent, too.
You see similar in football, with elite WRs and top cover corners. Some games, it looks like Illegal Contact and Pass Interference might get called every play. And certainly, some teams could get flagged on offense just about every down, with either illegal formation (the OTs are a yard off the ball, or false start (guys in motion turning upfield before the snap).
Baseball can be nuts, too; we saw something with last week's LSU-A&M series. Strike zone was extremely unpredictable- it was one of the only times that we, as viewers, could never figure out the zone. It wasn't so much that your pitcher or batter was being squeezed, things literally fluctuated on almost every at bat.
Thinking about that, I almost wonder if they were trying to "level" Skenes, so he didn't throw a no-hitter, because his stuff has been so dominant. But the problem was, he was still able to grind through and get a ton of strikeouts, and it screwed up the rest of both teams' pitchers.
No crew wants to be the one to call 40 fouls on a known, aggressive defense like the old Georgetown press or Arkansas' 40 Minutes of Hell, and render the game unwatchable and over 3 hrs long. But at the same time, you have to avoid being conditioned into allowing them to manhandle the opponent, too.
You see similar in football, with elite WRs and top cover corners. Some games, it looks like Illegal Contact and Pass Interference might get called every play. And certainly, some teams could get flagged on offense just about every down, with either illegal formation (the OTs are a yard off the ball, or false start (guys in motion turning upfield before the snap).
Baseball can be nuts, too; we saw something with last week's LSU-A&M series. Strike zone was extremely unpredictable- it was one of the only times that we, as viewers, could never figure out the zone. It wasn't so much that your pitcher or batter was being squeezed, things literally fluctuated on almost every at bat.
Thinking about that, I almost wonder if they were trying to "level" Skenes, so he didn't throw a no-hitter, because his stuff has been so dominant. But the problem was, he was still able to grind through and get a ton of strikeouts, and it screwed up the rest of both teams' pitchers.
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