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Old Sun Jun 25, 2006, 08:22pm
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally Posted by mcuban
Its obviously a tough call, but its made harder in the NBA because its not where was the defender when the contact was made, its "where are the defenders feat when the offensive player gathers the ball to go up for a shot". With 7footers now able to take long strides. A guy could start the process of putting up a floater 2 feet away from the RA circle , which gives defenders way too much time to slide in. Its an almost impossible call to get right in that circumstance.
Lah me, a fanboy gets outed.

That's funny.

Try "when the offensive player leaves his feet", dickhead- not where the ball is gathered---- same as every other ruleset in the world.

I hate to have to be the one to tell you, but you're not even doing a fair job of imitating Willie the Whiner.

Last edited by Jurassic Referee; Sun Jun 25, 2006 at 08:25pm.
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