sorry if this is a subject that's beaten to death here... I just found the site by doing a google search
I'd love to hear some sort of official ruling on a trend I'm seeing in the NBA regarding the no-charge zone.
Last night during game 5 of the finals, there was a play where Teyshon Prince drove the lane and ran into Horry under the basket.
Horry was definately stationary, and had definately established position... but his heel was indeed in the no-charge zone. He also did not commit a shooting foul by slapping T's arms or anything... he simply stood there... and if his heel had been outside the zone, there's no doubt it would have been called charging.
I understand that charging should NOT have been called... but in my interpretation of the rules, *NO* foul should have been called... instead, they called Horry for blocking. WHY?
In reading the rules on nba.com, I can't find anything that would support the call of blocking in this situation.
here's the link to the block/charge page on their site:
http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_c....av=ArticleList
It seems refs are seeing the no-charge zone as an automatic-blocking zone.
what say you?