One problem you are not considering is all the flopping and acting many of these players do. They barely get touched and you would have thought they were shot. They push and look at the official for a call against them. Post play is not very easy to call. Players are doing most of the moving themselves, as an official you have to determine who did what and how does it affect the play. At least in my games I talk players out of problems if I can. Because if you call every push or hold regardless of to what degree and where the ball is or is not, we would be calling more fouls than playing the game. I know this is not what you want to hear, but I say this again, basketball is a contact sport. Basketball is not a sport that players are not going to run into each other from time to time. It is our job to decide what was intentional, incidental, severe or minor. That is why we get payed the big bucks, just that simple.
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Originally posted by Rick82358
But the things that we do see are guys backing players down after they set legal guarding position. The offensive player just moves the defenderintoward the basket? Why do are we not calling the offensive foul in that situation.
I realixe that what it looks like and what are going on are two different things. but the flaling arms that are going around in the post to gain a position advantage are as much contact as a handcheck out front. The advantage is position. that is what we are not calling. The bodies bouncing off of each other really are not a problem. It is the arms pushing for position advantage that gets me. I make that call and I get a ton of grief for that. Yet it is as much of guide or control as a hand check.
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