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Originally Posted by Kelvin green
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.
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Totally agree with this statement and started recognizing this in the last 5 years or so. If you call fouls on the defender, you will not give the offensive player any incentive to pull up and shoot or pass the ball so they do not get get a foul called on them. This cleans up the game so much when you call offensive fouls and we stop penalizing the defense for every movement they make and we find reasons to call fouls on them.
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Originally Posted by Kelvin green
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.
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Exactly. Most of the times like these, this is an offensive foul.
Peace