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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
Thank you. I am so tired of this nonsense about secondary Defenders and if Naismith didn't write it then it doesn't exist. Geez.
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I've been ringing the bell on how to cover this play for years now.....and I always said how does a C officiate a dribble drive and know if a secondary defender out of the L's primary established LGP?
Then people point at the floor and say that the contact happened outside the lane. So what? The L is the official who watched that defender either establish or not establish LGP.
I'd expect, as a lead, to be able to ship this with a single whistle and not have to wait to make sure a C didn't make a call. If the C blows on it, it should be after the L has nothing.
I jokingly say "lead is king" in these situations, but I do think there's too much of an effort to give calls where the lead is best positioned to make a call to outside officials.