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Originally posted by TPS2859
They give you 5 fouls hoping you"ll pull your head out of your a$$ and quit making contact. If not bye bye. Look at some OLD video on the game, contact is minimal! Also contact happens when you have a player trying to attempt a move beound his/hers abilities. Sloppy defence comes to mind.
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If there was not contact allowed at all, there would not be a section in the rulebook that talks about incidental contact and there would not be a rule all dedicated to contact and what is and what is not a foul. And who cares about the old videos, you cannot tell half the time what foul they had. Referees are officiating in the lane. The mechanics are not reconizable. So to use the old game as a barometer for todays game. These players today lift weights, they play much more than they ever did. I am not that old and I never had the opportunity to play the AAU and traveling teams the way these kids do today. Not just the boys, but the girls as well.
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Originally posted by TPS2859
Who said anything about baseball??? Never seen a ump with a whistle yet.
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My comments were not because you stated anything about baseball. My comments are to illustrate that many sports outside of basketball allow for contact to take place. If this was golf, there would be nothing in the game that allows contact or has contact apart of the game.
At the end of the day, call what you feel is best. But do not be surprised if and when you call all contact or slight contact as a foul, do not be surprised if you are held back or do not achieve the things you want to in officiating. Not saying that is automatically going to happen, but you will not win friends at camps and with evaluators by just calling contact a foul that does not affect the play. Call it A/D or not, but you will be expected to use some judgment in determining whether contact warrants a foul. And this is not different than any other sport I officiate. There are mores that apply to all sports, if you want to be accepted or keep officiating.
Peace