I agree that moving screens are often missed (when I'm watching games at home, "moving screen!" is one of the most frequent things I yell in vain to my TV).
But this is really part of a more general problem for MBB (I don't watch enough WBB to comment on their officials). The officiating is inconsistent from game to game and from half to half within games, biased towards home teams and stars, and often terrible. Stanford does not have a lot of depth this year, and bad officiating has cost us games. And I see no improvement in the officiating from year to year. The game just moves too fast for the officials to get more than a slim majority of calls right, and that will not change.
I think that the only solution is AI, but that is probably decades away. They've only recently gotten to the point where a computer can call balls and strikes accurately in baseball. Basketball will be many orders of magnitude more difficult. So, unfortunately, we're going to be stuck with bad officiating for the foreseeable future.
But this is really part of a more general problem for MBB (I don't watch enough WBB to comment on their officials). The officiating is inconsistent from game to game and from half to half within games, biased towards home teams and stars, and often terrible. Stanford does not have a lot of depth this year, and bad officiating has cost us games. And I see no improvement in the officiating from year to year. The game just moves too fast for the officials to get more than a slim majority of calls right, and that will not change.
I think that the only solution is AI, but that is probably decades away. They've only recently gotten to the point where a computer can call balls and strikes accurately in baseball. Basketball will be many orders of magnitude more difficult. So, unfortunately, we're going to be stuck with bad officiating for the foreseeable future.
