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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Snaqwells:
I know that about a month or two ago somebody started a thread about whether I was still alive or not. To be honest, there really has not been anything weird in this season to get my heart pumping until Old School came along in this thread.
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You're welcome!
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This thread has been mixed emotions: like watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your brand new Cadillac.
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I'm not feeling this statement here. Hope everything is alright.
However, one good lesson deserves another. One of the problem I have with your way of interpreting this rule is that it doesn't stand up to criterism. If I'm driving down the road, and all of a sudden a deer runs out in front of my car. Bamm! I hit the deer, and next you thing you know, the law enforcers comes and tells me, it's my fault. The deer was there first! My point is this, I didn't have enough time to stop. The closest the rulebook comes in a situation like this is incident contact! A foul should not be called even though the contact is severe. In your world, I go to jail, pay fine for hitting the deer. In my world, it's incidental contact, we'll mop the deer up, count the bucket or shoot 2 free throws. And last and the true point of story that you may not get. The deer is dead, and so is the defender, got there too late buddy. Give me one more second, I'm locking 'em up, moving to avoid. One more second, I got a set defender, offensive foul. Easy call to make.
My way stands up to criterism, your way stands up to dumb. Do as I say and don't ask questions. Here, just drink this kool-aid. Your way doesn't take into account the offensive player, only one thing, did the defender get set, yes, offense! To me, that's dumb. I'm not officiating dumb. When officiating reaches a point where I can't intelligently apply the rules combined with my own fair judgment of what I thought just happened. Then I truly will be done officiating. Oh and BTW, intelligently applying the rules in a fair and consistent manner, is in the rulebook.
Damn I'm good!