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Originally posted by Nate1224hoops
If you called a fould everytime one player put his/her hands on or bumped another player, then there would be no game.
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No one is talking about calling every bump and brush. I think the tendency is to let too much go, rather than not enough. And I think it varies a lot by level, and style of play. The girls' game is so horizontal that there is much more contact, but that also means that at the highest level, they're much more used to playing through it. So it ends up looking like a scrum sometimes. But at the middle levels of play, I usually end up calling more than "average" because the players haven't learned to play through. Girls' JV is about the toughest. because the girls haven't learned to defend cleanly, and they haven't learned how to deal with the defense, so there are lots of fouls, and lots of shots. Many of the "bumps" and "brushes" appear slight, but they do confer an illegal advantage, and have to be called. Rarely is there a good girls JV game that doesn't end up with 45 or 50 fouls. Refs need to call those, or the girls won't learn and move up. Hmmm.... time to write another article, I guess.