Travels by Luka Not Called – In The Lab Vid Showing How the Rules Are Not Being Consistently Called
Hey guys I’m Dev, and I’m the number 1 social media ref snitch troll. “Pure basketball” is ruined pic.twitter.com/2KcXG1m0G9
— IN THE LAB (@DevInTheLab) November 30, 2022
by FalcoLamborghini
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That’s the thing why trying to call every single letter of the law carry its a no win exercise in hurt feelings. The human eye can only perceive so much so fast and then process the decisions to call it or not.
From a fans perspective it’s simply not fun, and unless a carry is aggregious we’re not interested in seeing them. I don’t even care that Luka wasn’t called for some travels on the competitive point of view. I more care about the enjoyment of the game. Who wants to see Steph or Luka get hit with ticky tack calls in a “game of the year” type contest? Nobody on earth. Except the ref that is trying to get an top rating on his annual evaluation cuz that is the POE… they purposefully motivated the refs to search for these ridiculous calls.
The vision and perception of the refs isn’t uniformly accurate/precise. So asking them to call them all by the letter results in some refs anticipating travels and trying too hard to catch them all.
You are asking very good refs to be PERFECT… and what actually is happening is they are performing worse.
Perfect gets in the way of very good. The letter of the law obscures the spirit of the law.