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Originally Posted by crosscountry55
I like this response the most. While reviewing the video, I see the defender getting there so late that as he’s trying to straighten his knees and stand tall, his hips and torso are still moving toward the shorter when contact occurs. Block.
In reality, am I going to have time as the lead to look up from the feet and judge this in time? Nope. Charge.
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I’m going to disagree that defender was “late”. ...Did the defender establish legal guarding position? ( both feet on the ground, facing the opponent)...
Once the defender has established the position and attained the spot on the floor.. the defender is entitled to the space on the floor and the vertical space. If the defender is in his vertical space and offender causes contact, responsibility is on offense player for contact... no different to me than turning to absorb shock that makes it look like torso is moving toward offense...contact occurs on Torso...
A couple of philosophy notes.
I agree with the statement in previous post...What did the defender do wrong? He did it right, he’s defending the goal and taking a drive away...
Call this a charge and the offensive team thinks twice about making this plays to the basket.... Call it a block and the offensive team will continue to drive like this and make the game rougher.
Refereeing the defense here is more than watching the feet and then looking up... it’s the defender playing basketball. All too often we referee with the assumption that the defense is always wrong. The better way to look at it... the defender is always legal... and once the defender proves they do something wrong, then blow the whistle..
In this play the defender has shown me nothing that violates a rule.