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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 4215832, member: 5798"] Thanks Monte. I watch both videos. Very informative. Us "mature" guys that played ball back in the day must realize that the rules we played by are not necessarily the rules they use and play by TODAY. Now as in yesteryear, different referees interpret the rules differently. How nice it would be if there was a degree of uniformity in officials calling games. We had a group of referees that would call our games on a rotating basis. After awhile, we knew how each official called a game, and we made adjustments to each team of referees for that game. To me, walking (traveling) and block/charge are the most difficult calls for an official to make. It's a fact of life that two officials can see the same play, and make different calls. THAT will never change. I don't know how many times I heard my coach challenge a call or non call to the referee and the ref's response was "I didn't see it." Well, he/she was the only person in the gym/arena that didn't. How often have YOU been at a game, you're sitting in the stands, and you can see every play on the court from 40-80 feet away, and a referee is standing within 10 feet from the play, and they don't see it? :eek: How an that be? [/QUOTE]