Tue Dec 14, 2004, 05:23pm
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Get away from me, Steve.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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Originally posted by ref18
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Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
Per NFHS rules you are perfectly correct. However the coach's concerns should be considered.
NBA has a similar rule with the semicircle under the basket. You cannot guard anyone from there so either get outside the circle or accept a no call.
I believe similar rules are in process for college and I think some high school associations are experimenting with this type of rule.
I would have had to be there to see it, but I think what the coach was suggesting was that you pass on this call - NO CALL.
As with any contact, there is a lot to do with timing. Did the shooter intentionally run over the "defender?" Did the "defender" jump into this spot (albeit legally) trying to defend the basket or simply trying to take a charge?
For you, there are still three options: charge, block, no-call. I think any of them may be valid but no-call is probably the best call given the location (underneath the basket) but intent of the players must be included in the calculation.
Sell it and be confident.
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Just my opinion:
A no call in this situation wouldn't be a correct call. It was said the airborn shooter crashes into B1, therefore that's not incidental contact and a foul must be called, and because legal guarding position was obtained, the only thing to call would be a charge.
Also, with regards to the block charge, time means nothing. As long as the defender obtained a legal guarding position and didn't move into the ball carrier, I'm calling a charge. I don't care if he had it established for a tenth of a second or a full minute.
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0.1 second before A1 becomes an airborne shooter, not 0.1 seconds before contact. This is the one siituation where I think that TOO MANY charges are being called -- when we don't note whether the driving player is already airborne before the defender slides in and LOOKS like he's established LGP.
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