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Originally Posted by IUgrad92
I'm surprised this question hasn't come up with the first video, with this play originating from the wing, where was the trail?? I'd like to think that being T in that cirmcumstance I'd be closing down some on the pass to #4 red and especially then following the drive to the basket. Being L in that play, I still am trying to get better at having a 'patient whistle' on that drive from the wing. Rookie, were you anticipating your T to have that, and then had to come in and take it yourself? It seemed from the video that it took you a little longer that normal before I saw you come into the picture going to the table to report.
Just wondered if that came up in the postgame discussions???
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My opinion of how the 3-man mechanics work on this type of play is that the Trail would have the player with the ball and any defender who picks him up out there on the wing and goes to the basket with him, but there is NO WAY that the Trail can also have the defender running in from the weak side and trying to take the charge at the block. He just isn't going to know if that defender got there in time.
However, the Lead can pick up the DEFENDER coming across the FT lane and observe his feet to set if he establishes initial LGP. If the contact occurs after that the Lead will know the right call. The key is that the defender is a secondary defender, he does not come in from the wing with the dribbler, and he sets up in the Lead's primary area. This makes it the Lead's call. We always say referee the defense.
BTW while the Center can see the player come from his primary and run across the lane, he probably isn't going to have as good of a look at the final position that the defender takes or the contact between the two players since he will be looking at the back of the defender and from a good distance away.
I disagree with anyone who says that the crash is the Trail's call. The Lead should have the first shot at it. However, if there is a travel before the crash, the Trail should have that.