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Originally Posted by btaylor64
No, I'm sorry. You were reading my post to pure. I agree with you totally about a defender being legal and the offensive player's arm getting hit. In the play that we are talking about though. Bowen comes from behind and swings at the ball. If nash gets hit on the arm, no matter where he is or is not going, we need to have a foul.
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The play could have been a foul. Just from the angle that we were shown, I do not think it is an automatic. All I am really saying, I understand why this was not called. Because of our individual judgment and experience, we can always debate how this was a foul and how it was not a foul.
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Originally Posted by btaylor64
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The NBA is not taught that. They believe in not bailing out players, but they also believe that if a player gets hit illegally, no matter if it was a stupid play or not, that it is a foul. That is one of the minor details that is different from college to the NBA. College refs can pass on it with no consequence, NBA refs cannot for the fact that it will be chalked up as NO Call INCORRECT on their charting of plays and will reduce their percentage of plays called correctly.
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I have talked about this NCI (No call incorrect) before on this site. And I said that at the college level, they seemed to want a call more often than just passing on this play. Of course there are some philosopy differences, but Hank Nichols is putting on the tape every year several examples where he feels that officials are not making a call when they clearly should. I was at a camp where several D1 officials were clinicians and one of the officials was hanging around from the NBA and this aspect was talked about extensively.
I am not saying you are wrong, I think we are looking at this differently.
Peace