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Originally Posted by BillyMac
You are where you were until you get where you're going.
Must have something in and nothing out.
Last to touch, first to touch.
Must sit a tick, don’t have to play a tick.
There's a difference between being tripped, and tripping.
Over the back isn't, on the back is.
Accidental isn't always incidental.
If you are not sure, don’t call it.
When the ball is dead, we must be alive.
Prevent if we can, enforce if we must.
Answer questions, not statements.
Anticipate the play, not the call.
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*Regarding your point #5: In a recent pregame chat with my crew, we shared our views on this type of action. A play where dribbler is attempting to drive past a defender [B1] who is in LGP and then trips over the foot of defender and falls down. A foul is expected to be called on B1. Or equally common, when A1 is trapped by B1+ B2, [with less than 2 feet of open space betwixt] then tries to force/split the trap, stumbles after contacting the leg of either B and falls down subsequently loses the ball, and a foul is expected to be called on either B. In both plays the foot, torso or leg of either B was there first and was maintained in normal position (no obtrusive extension). Collectively, we'd all observed amongst ourselves and others a foul was called on either B. So, we vowed to call these types of action correctly in our game that day; mindful of recognizing proper LGP by the either B. I had the first crack at it in the first qtr when an A1 was trapped by a B1+B2, who'd established and maintained their LGP, at the FT semicircle and tried to split them on a straightline drive try for goal. The A1 tripped on thigh of a B and fell down, lost the ball and a B advanced the ball for fast break score. No whistle from me or anyone e else. In transition the A coach ripped my azz [which I expected]: "Didn't you see that tripping foul?!" He exclaimed. "Now he's hurt", he said while pointing at his A1 limping on the court. And he called a timeout to replace the limping A. Then, he asked me again during the timeout why no foul was called. I replied to the A coach: "Hay coach, your was not tripped, he just tripped on the defender who was already there first. Coach any player has a right to a spot on the floor provided he gets there first." Then A coach retorted, "Sir, everybody calls that a foul, you can't just make up your own rules." I replied, "Coach, the other refs called that a foul because the defense was probably not in LGP, but on that play the defense was in LGP. If it was your players on defense I would no-call it the same way." He paused, looked a bit stunned, and said nothing else. But for the rest of that game, no other player tried to dribble-split force their way through traps, I observed them to subsequently make passes over the trap or employ stratagems that altogether avoided traps (e.g., speed dribbling around traps, backup dribb!es, step-thru passes, etc.). Ostensibly, the teams therefore adapted to how the game was being called.