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Originally Posted by BillLaimbeer  To blame a single call by an official as the reason why a team doesn't make the playoffs sounds a bit silly to me.
A team that misses the playoffs will lose at least 30 games. The loss at the beginning of the season counts the same as the loss at the end.
Similarly, we tend to focus on made/missed shots, calls/non-calls, etc. that occur at the very end of a game, but there are literally several hundred plays throughout a game that ultimately decide the final outcome. |
my track coach in highschool was also the football coach so sorta coached us from that mindset... will always remember after losing a conference meet in the last event the mile relay on us being dq'd for a handoff exchange (very close and depends on what school you ask whether the right call was made or not)....
anyways after the meet and were all moaning about the bad call, he went around the room to each of us and said... you know if you did this, we would have won... now some of the if's were unlikely to happen the 5th miler on our team running 30 secs faster then he ever did wasn't likely but we probably had 15 things that we could have done in that meet that would have won it for us.
Never blame one call, or one action for a lose in a game... for every play that was made there are many others that could also have been done...
Another saying he said is never leave the game close enough for the refs to have a chance to decided the outcome.