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Message: [QUOTE="ConwayGmck, post: 4953607, member: 10442"] The perspective of the current generation of human beings. Total entitlement. Zero honor or self-accountancy of one's actions. Everyone gets an out and a golden parachute out of errors and mistakes in life. A lottery check inside everyone's mailbox. Once upon a time in the olden generations, making mistakes in crucial moments of games were called "boneheaded" plays, and the players who made them were packaged together in VHS video tapes by Sports Illustrated and mailed to everyone's homes at Christmas time should they have a subscription, and vilified into sports history. Now, Sports Illustrated is no more, and everyone thinks they should be allowed to make mistakes in games of physical competition, and yet STILL win as a result. The "participation" trophy is the main culprit for this group-think, in my opinion. As long as there is an active game clock, the officials have a primary job responsibility to uphold, and it is the PLAYER'S responsibility to execute plays properly - especially in crucial moments towards final seconds of games - and if they do, perhaps they MAY win. Perhaps not. I am tired of watching one team bust their butts off to get into a position to win a hard-fought, VERY important game, only to have it ripped away from them by an opponent who did not DESERVE to win, but did so because the officials swallowed their whistles. THEN, to have fans say "let the players decide". One particular player in THIS game actually DID decide, when Edwards decided to commit a foul, with no reason to. All the officials did, was their job....... Even IF Edwards had NOT fouled then, the play was going NOWHERE. Auriemma drew up a still-birth play all crammed up in front of his bench. The only success that would come from it would REQUIRE a violation being committed, and the officials letting it slide by. There were STILL almost 5 seconds left to clean it up, down only 1 point. Lobo even stated it as Clark was stepping up to take her first free-throw shot: GET THE REBOUND ON THE MISSED 2ND TRY. But the CT players didn't do that. Then at the end, Clark makes a heady inbounds play directed at Beucker's derriere, and the game was over. Not really sure what would be different, had Edwards not committed the illegal screen..... [/QUOTE]

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