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Message: [QUOTE="BruinGold, post: 5211357, member: 11533"] No. I think they were trying to be "fair" by not calling post fouls on USC on every possession. You could just as easily say that refs would get "tired" of calling Betts for 3 seconds on every possession. I don't think that referees, in general, are ever trying to do anything but make sure that a game is played fairly. But, they are human and respond to suggestion, perception, the crowd, etc. A natural part of a coach's job is to "work the refs" and complain about calls... because refs are human and they can be influenced. My perception during this game was that Betts was getting "manhandled" in the low post throughout the game. (I think that most skilled posts take a lot more "allowed" abuse than guards do) I don't think that the level of physical play changed much when Betts was in the low post. It changed when she was in the high post, certainly. But, the calls stopped coming as the game went on. I speculate that the reason for that is that calling 15 fouls on USC posts doesn't feel fair to an officiating crew. UCLA has specifically tried playing Betts in such a way that she doesn't foul... she's too valuable on offense. So, the post fouls in almost all UCLA games are pretty lopsided. That's not going to feel "fair" to refs after awhile. If you could ever get a "robot ref" in basketball, in the way that baseball will be trying out a system to call balls and strikes, it would change game play quite a bit. Not because human refs aren't fair, but because they try to be fair by making things as equal as possible... even when they aren't equal. [/QUOTE]

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