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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by theboys
And, you're right, not all contact is a foul, but if you're not going to be consistent with your calls, or you're not going to establish ahead of time a line beyond which everything is a foul, you set yourself up for failure. If someone slaps a passer on the arm, it shouldn't matter whether the pass was successful or not in your decision to call a foul.
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Well I categorically disagree with that. Because just because you get slapped on the arm is not a justification for a foul. Because if you are allowed to follow thru on your pass and you make slight contact on the arm, I am not taking back a layup for a foul that had no affect on the play at all. No different if a dribbler tries to split two defenders that are just standing there basically. It would be totally inproper to call a foul on the defenders because the dribbler made a bad decision. Of course there are officials that would call a foul, but that does not make it right.
Peace [/B]
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I don't agree that just because someone makes a layup that you shouldn't call the foul. Maybe the defender wants to foul that player before he can make an easy layup. If you don't call that foul, then maybe the next time down the defender fouls the offensive player harder.
Sorry, a foul is a foul, and sometimes the defense will gain an advantage by committing a foul.