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Originally Posted by Old School
I think we're screwing the wrong guy. I think the shooter life is put in jeopardy and he's also tag for the foul. The defender did not try to play defense, he tried to beat him to the spot. That is not playing defense. I'm telling you if our founding father was alive, he would say somebody is asleep at the wheel here. The issue is the athlete is so much quicker, now you mix in a gifted D1 scholarship athlete getting beat to the spot by a lower level player who wouldn't even make the NAIA, who ruins his career. Why is it that in this country, we are not willing to do anything until someone is seriously hurt. For ex: we know that intersection needs a stop light but we refuse to put one there until there's a nasty auto accident and someone gets killed. Then you see a stop light go up real quick. That's what's going to have to happen here, unfortunately. Mark my words.
I got the fix too. If you're a secondary defender, time and distance does apply and the shooter needs no more than 2 steps but no less than one. Then we get back to playing defense on this type of play, trying to block the shot or steal the ball, and no more of this non-basketball sh!t stepping in front of a player driving to the bucket to shoot.
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Since when did taking a charge not become part of the game anymore? It has been a conerstone in basketball as long as I have been alive and playing the game. It has and always will be taught because everyone and their mother considers it a great defensive play when a player will get to a spot legally before an opponent and give his body up for the welfare of the team.
There will always be kids trying and attempting to take charges in the game of basketball, and inevitably there will be kids who will come in late and undercut another player, which is unfortunate but will still happen and in these cases all we can do is call a block and hope the kid doesn't get hurt.