[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Old School

And who are you to make this judgement about me? It's pretty much consistent across the board that most think this call could have gone either way and been okay with it. I am okay with you calling a CHARGE here and I have mention this over and over. However, I believe this is a BLOCK, will always be a block in my book. The reason I say it's all about you is because somewhere down the line, you have made yourself god, king know-it-all, judge and jury, and because I share a different opinion on this play, I should quite officiating. Now please do tell, who elected you to be judge over who should ref and who shouldn't?

Dang-it! It's that damn kool-aid. Stop drinking it and you won't feel like you need to tell everybody what to do, and remember, it's not all about you! Basketball is bigger than me, you and all the other kool-aid drinkers on this forum. It will still be played long after me and you have served our time on this earth. So you really need to get over yourself here and this one call and take life one step at a time, one call at a time.

Good day!

Old School:

Read what Snagwells wrote right after your last post. He points out your problem. Everybody agrees that this was a bang-bang play, the problem is that you insist on applying your rules rather than the rules of basketball to dertermine what is a block and what is a charge. You keep saying that the secondary defender is being given an advantage over the dribbler by not having to give time and distance to obtain/establish a legal guarding position, well that is just too bad. I have given you a history lesson as to why time and distance does not matter in this situation but you inssist on telling everybody that you do not care about applying the rules correctly and that you are going to apply them the way you want to apply them. That tells us one thing, and that it is about YOU and only YOU. Once again, stop officaiting basketball, you are doing a great disservice to the game if you continue to do so.

MTD, Sr.