[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Advantage/disadvantage should be applied to FOULS, not VIOLATIONS.

If you disagree, which violations do you apply it to? All of them? Or just the ones you choose?

If all of them, when a dribbler in the back court with no defensive pressure puts a toe on the sideline for all the gym to see, right in front of the opposing coach, do you pass on that?

What if instead of a toe, the inbounds pass slips through her hands, bounces off the bleachers and back into her hand? No defensive pressure, no advantage, no call?

You can see how silly this can become.

And, if you insist that the "carry" is no advantage when the dribbler isn't making a move, keep in mind that when we see a dribbler "stop" a dribble by letting the ball come to rest in her hand, ALL FIVE of my defenders are instructed to do something differently (the help defenders can now deny, the deny defenders can go farther into the passing lane, and the ball defender can straighten up, step closer, and begin to trace the ball). If, as we are adjusting to the end of the dribble, the dribbler is then allowed to restart her dribble, we are at a severe DISADVANTAGE.