[Batpuff]

.......that you see consistently being made by officials in high school basketball today? And I mean calls that are made on a routine basis, not just your common missed call or bad call.

IMO, its the traveling call against offensive players who either ball fake or head fake a defender. The defender then procedes to jump up for a block, which is the purpose of the fake, and directly following is the loud echo of the word WAALLLLKKKK!!! from all the non-basketball ball schooled folks in the stand. Finally, the ref is punk'd into blowing his whistle.

It happens at least once in every game I watch, and it really annoys me because we are trying to teach our kids the fundamental aspects of basketball that watching NBA games won't teach them.

So.......for the love of God, refs. Easy on the fundamentally sound kids.

I agree with you, but the one that really kills me is the charge call. I have seen it all year our guys are great at taking the charge and are preached to do so to make up for things. What kills me is we get ran over and 90% of the time are either no calls or called for the block, yea I will say that there are a FEW times that they dont get there. But the thing is we get the no call or the blocking call and then they call a charge on us. (Example: in the game against Sheldon Clark Shawn Thompson picked up two fouls in less than a min, the first min of the game. both of them were charges, then we had kids taking charges on the other end and no calls were made either way) So how is that fair to call it on one end and then turn around and not call it on the other end. Last night in the Belfty game I saw Mitch Copley take 5 charges and 4 of them were called blocking which was crap. One of the blocking calls I saw the Belfry kid lower his shoulder and just plow over top of him, he was there and had his feet set, and it was a good indication that it was a charge when he lowered his shoulder and proceeded to run over top of the defender.