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Originally Posted by jdw3018
Thanks, Jurassic. Would this lead you to call two hands on the dribbler an automatic hand-checking foul?
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AS I said before, our association trains our officials to make that exact call. If officials call it uniformly, the teams will adjust quickly. As always, the biggest problem we have is the odd official that thinks that the direction issued goes against his personal philosophy and he/she refuses to call it. That just leads to confusion on the defenders' part as to what they can do or not do.
Jmo, but I think that the key is trying to get all officials to call the play the same way, rather than having dueling local interpretations. The players/coaches have to know what to expect; the players in order to play defense and the coaches in order to coach defense.
If an area feels that 2 hands on a dribbler isn't a automatic foul, I don't have a problem with that as long as everybody in that area calls that play uniformly. The problem arises though when you have to officiate teams from areas with different calling philosophies. And those problems lead right back to the reason
why the FED issues POE's every year.