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Originally Posted by Old School
Wrong again, we are only concerned about contact. If you are calling PC or charges correctly, you are looking for contact to the turso. No need to widen your view for that. Contact will always occur at the point of impact. If the defender, at the point of impact, just stepped into his position (TIME), AND the shooter is about to go airborne (distance) on a drive to the bucket. The impact or point of contact will not be at the turso of the defender. Very easy call to make, the play will always look like a submarine attack on the shooter.
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You can't possibly be this dense, you have to be making this crap up. Even a fanboy should know better. As long as the defender is in LGP prior to the shooter becoming airborne, the contact will be square on. Whether he gave two steps or one step or just got there prior to the last leap, it's going to look the same at the point of contact.
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Originally Posted by Old School
You need to explain….
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It's really quite simple. There is a point at which you need to judge which event happens first. Changing what those events are doesn't change the fact that you still have to make a judgment. The only difference is, in your world, it would be more difficult. Why, you might ask?
Judging whether event A happened before or after event B gets more difficult the closer they happen together in time. It gets even more difficult the further they happen from each other in distance. Let's just provide an absurd example:
If you must determine whether B1 is in LGP prior to A1 crossing the half court line, I'm sure we could all agree this is impossible. Yet it's very possible to decide whether it happens before the shooter leaps airborne, because these events are only happening about three feet from each other on the floor. If you insist they get one step, then the events are happening anywhere from 6 to 10 feet apart. Add another step, and the distance grows to at least 9 feet and upwards of 15 feet. Now, imagine trying to determine whether B1 is in LGP prior to A1 taking the two steps before going airborne when one event is happening two feet in front of the hoop and the other is happening behind the three point line. No official should even be looking in both places.
The problem is you're not thinking through the ramifications of your drastic proposal.
I'm sure others will cheer, but I'm done here. If you can't figure this out, then you'll just have to go on hating the rules the way they are.