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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
A. Go ahead and rotate even though A1 was already penetrating to the basket and then come with the whistle.
B. Pass on the foul and let the play continue on to the basket.
C. Call the hand-check even though I was calling from across the paint.
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A good habit to get into is to back out to wide-angle when a drive starts out of the C's primary. The logic behind it is two-fold.
1) It gets you farther away from the play so you are less likely to poach a call across the key.
2) It gives a non-verbal reminder to the C that the play is theirs to take.
You don't have to pass on a significant foul, but you should have a delayed whistle and give the C the first crack at the play. If you do decide to go over to the C's side with a whistle, it should be something significant and not something that the C might have chose to let go.
IMO (as you described it), the C should have decided if it was handcheck or not and your call might have been a little bit of a poach.
This is a good conversation to have after the game? "Hey C, did you think I reached on that one or were you straightlined?" Hopefully you'll have a partner that is comfortable enough with you to be honest in their reply.
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