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I saw the play and the replay and wondered if it should have been called. I am second guessing, but we all do it. I also saw the charge (yes I would have to agree with Dick Vitale, and that makes me hurt) that he pointed out was let go, and it was let go. It was near the basket but not under it. My point is that we all miss things and there are differing philosophies.
I will have to take sides with Drake on a couple of things. The NBA has done some serious work to alleviate the roughness of the game, but the NBA was not the only one that had rough games. There used to be a big difference in East Coast vs West Coast ball and a couple of the eastern conferences used to play some pretty physical ball as well. What the NBA did that the other organizations did was define the elements that should be called. While NCAA and NF made it a point of emphasis for some of this, many times the guidelines were not clear. They are getting better at defining things but they should not be POE these guidelines should be listed as part of the rules with the specifics layed out where there is no room for interpretation. Ive seen on this and MCgriffs board many times where prople say yea we do the POE but it gets lost by the way side.
The NBA clearly writes their guidelines and incorporates them into the book with much more clarity than NF. Sometimes they dont get followed but generally they are. It is never hard to figure out when the NBA wants a call. What's interesting is to see how the NBA philosophies and rules make it to the NF level and no one ever figured out that they came from the league.
On the previous play listed I would have to say I would have to see it but if the defense got a great block and is the offense was off balance and gets bumped and goes down, I would be inclined to pass as incidental. If the defemse makes a great block and there is a swat, and there ends up being minor contact, I'll think twice about calling a foul. Why should the defense get penalized for playing great defense?
In general based on my observation, NF officials call more fouls on the defense than on offense, Although there is a lot of contact by the defense, more contact is ruled incidental when it is done by the offense than when it is done by the defense.
I have seen games even the last couple of nights where I had partners bail out the offense. We had a play where 2 bigger players in the middle, basically straight up (hands above head but out about 1-2 feet in front) The defense did not move their feet, they did not move their arms downward, the offense went at them jumped into their arms and the foul called on the defensive player. For what standing there? Clearly they were not 100% vertical but I think they were less at fault than the offensive player.
Offensive player trying to drive in between the defenders when there is no room and its called on the defense.
I am not talking about times when we have to protect the shooter. But there are way too many times when we call things on the defense that should not be called. How many times have we anticipated a call because a player jumped up and we knew there was going to be a foul and it turns out there wasn't or there was only minor contact. Drake is right we have to see the whole play and then exercise our judgement. Sometimes it just isn't a foul.
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