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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
Additionally, who IS the "secondary defender"? If you change the rules for time and distance based on such a definition, you'd have a real judgement mess....is it the primary defender? is it the secondary? was it the secondary that is now the primary (at what time does that occur)? etc....????? There would be so many 'what ifs' that it could never be called consistently or predicatbly.
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It is not hard at all to determine the secondary defender. If nobody is guarding the person with the ball and he is driving towards the basket, any defense, zone, whatever, is secondary. All situations where this would come into to play would occur at the basket. The NBA calls it the LDB - Lower Defensive Block. This elliminates all the many different what if scenaro's.
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The offense would want everyone to be declared a secondary defender so that could either easily pass by all defenders or run over all of them without getting a foul.
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This is a stupid statement, nobdy is avocating running over anybody. The issue is running underneath the player with the ball that's driving to the bucket to shoot a layup. The issue is a safety concern for the shooter, the issue is to protect the shooter!