Quote Originally Posted by pcyclonatrist View Post
What if the ball rolls out of bounds? Give it to the team it went out of bounds on? That is a bad idea. What if the Team A loses the handle and the ball bounces away. Another Team A player clearly could pick up the ball, but since he hears the whistle he stops playing and lets the ball roll out of bounds. What if Team B grabs it before it goes out of bounds after the whistle, would they get the ball? If a shot is not made, is it a jump ball everytime?
Decide all of these questions as if you had an unintentional whistle.



You haven't addressed my point regarding the fouls assessed to each player. Why do you want to give at leastone player a foul he doesn't deserve? (Not to mention giving at least one team a foul it doesn't deserve.) This could have a very big impact on the outcome of the game. (I'm assuming you agree that theoretically it should be impossible to actually have both a charge and a block simultaneously, regardless of what is called. They seem to be mutually exclusive fouls. Thus calling both simultaneously means that at least one ref was wrong.) Intentionally giving a player a foul when he didn't commit a foul boggles my mind. Intentionally not giving a player a foul because your not sure he actually committed a foul does not boggle my mind.[/quote]

Players get called for fouls all the time that aren't deserved. Players also foul and don't get called for it. You say that obviously a foul didn't occur. I say that obviously a foul did occur. One ref was sure each player fouled. Its not like its a guy stepping on a line where it could be determined for sure what violation occured.

The way it is now, one official made an incorrect call. What you propose is saying that 2 officials made an incorrect call. Two wrongs don't make a right.