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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 3257488, member: 6520"]
Certainly looks like a bad call (with the caveat that you can't really make a full judgment of a call like this with a picture).  And as the son of a NY State HS referee - and a friend of a current NBA referee - I'll add two comments from my conversations/experience talking with them: 1) Most bad/missed calls are primarily the result of the ref being out of position or blocked from a perfect view.  2) Most referees really, really want to get every call right and would be sick to their stomach to know that they badly botched one.

At the NBA level, the referees have access to video of every second of every game and they get teaching clips / training all the time.  (And when they're not refereeing, they're watching NBA games and texting one another about calls and/or rules interpretations.)  I can email the NBA ref that I know about any play from any game and he'll typically respond by the next morning at the latest with a thorough analysis of exactly what the correct call was.  The NBA guys are basketball junkies and perfectionists... but you'll never get that at the HS level, unfortunately.
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